The coat of arms of Sudan features the secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius), a distant cousin of the vulture.
The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) is the world's largest living lizard.
So a local folk hero took a heap of cow and goat bones and crafted the first takin.
The Cypriot subspecies (Ovis gmelinite option) is found only in Cyprus, an island republic south of Turkey.
Peru selected a relative of the llama, the vicuña (Vicugna vicugna), as its national animal
A national arthropod grasshopper), a national marine mammal (vaquita) and a national dog, Xoloitzcuintli.
As many as one-third of Europe's population of gyrfalcons (Falco rusticolus) come to Iceland to breed
A member of the goat family, the marker (Capra falconeri) roams sparsely wooded regions in the Himalayas.