The gelada (Theropithecus gelada) is the only living member of the Theropithecus genus. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rocky198/support

The biggest bat in the Americas, and the biggest carnivorous bat in the world. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rocky198/support

Just how common is the huge, ridiculously long-lived Greenland Shark? New research has the beginnings of an answer. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rocky198/support

The Robin Hoods of the natural world. I discovered them when I was a kid, burning through wildlife books from the library. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rocky198/support

The coelacanth(s) (Latimeria chalumnae and Latimeria menadoensis) must be amongst the most famous fish in the entire world. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rocky198/support

The large blue butterfly (Maculinea arion - or Phengaris arion, depending on who you ask) is both beauty and the beast. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rocky198/support

Wild cattle don't come much more beautiful or impressive than the banteng (Bos javanicus), one of three (or is it two?) surviving cattle species that are as much a part of wild Asia as are the tiger or the orang-utan. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rocky198/support

Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was one of the most surprising, dramatic and generally amazing animals to have shared the world with modern humans. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rocky198/support

Plus, a bird that is next to impossible to see, but almost impossible not to hear. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rocky198/support

This Wild Episode is all about what was once the rarest insect in the world - the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/rocky198/support