ZSSD / Naked Mole Rat (Heterocephalus glaber) portrait, native to Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia

Daniel Heuclin / Blind Cave fish (Phreatichthys andruzzi) captive, from Somalia

Michael D. Kern / Small Scaled Stiletto Snake {Atractaspis fallax} captive, from Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya

Michael D. Kern / Small Scaled Stiletto Snake {Atractaspis fallax} captive, from Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya

Albert Lleal / Pygmy Leaf Chameleon (Rhampholeon kerstenii) female, native to Kenya, Tanzania, and Somalia

Michael Durham / Hamadryas Baboon (Papio hamadryas) female nursing young. Their range is semi-arid plains and rocky hills in Ethiopia, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen

Rod Williams / Somali wild ass {Equus asinus somalicus} mother suckling foal, Critically endangered, captive, from Somalia

ZSSD / Somali Wild Ass (Equus africanus somalicus) adult and foal, smallest of the wild horses, a native to Somalia and Ethiopia

ZSSD / Somali Wild Ass (Equus africanus somalicus) braying, smallest of the wild horses, native to Somalia and Ethiopia

Jean E. Roche / Aerial view of clouds over desert with shadows on land Somalia