Middle East | San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants

Dragon trees on Dicksam Plateau, Socotra island, Yemen

Map of the Middle East

A giraffe dines on some thorny acacia leaves in Africa

Aloe plant and flowers

Flying fox

Native California bee

Shining Leaf Chafer Beetle

Bonsai maple at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

Alaskan brown bear

Monarch butterfly resting on green leaf

Butterfly, Moth, and Skipper

A caracal stares to the left as it walks

Yellow-rumped warbler with a bee in its beak sitting on a cattail in B.C. Canada

Veiled chameleon

Mother cheetah grooming young cub

A Chinese dwarf crocodile floating half-submerged in water

Date palm heavy with bright orange fruit

Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) Male

Dragonfly and Damselfly

Two dung beetles rolling a ball of dung on gravel

Many figs are shown hanging on a ficus tree.

four flamingos stretch their necks up to the sky

Red-legged kassina frog

A pink geranium.

Geranium (Pelargonium)

Close up of a hamadryas baboon's face

Hamadryas Baboon

A young honey badger looks to the left as he sits in tall blades of grass.

Honey Badger (Ratel)

Ladybug crawling down a blade of grass

Leopard gecko emerging from rocks.

Green-headed tree agama lizard

Close up of a lynx face as it looks slightly to the left with its eyes

Lynx and Bobcat

Male Nubian ibex

The white flower on an orchid.

Gemsbok oryx with head lowered

Great horned owl in flight.

Close up of a fan palm frond.

Great White pelican

Butterfly sitting on a cluster of pink pentas flowers.

Large red pomegranate fruit growing on tree

A Rock Hyrax or Dassie, on lichen covered rocks in Cape Peninsula, South Africa

Scorpion in the Spanish desert

Sea lavender with small butterfly.

oncilla

Yellow bush viper

orb weaver spider

Peruvian fire stick insect on a leafy branch

Saddlebill stork

A striped hyena looks slightly to the left as is suns itself in front of its den

A tight cluster of basil leaves.

Greenbottle blue tarantula