Henry's Amazing Golden Gecko Awards was part of Henry's Amazing Animals

Henry's Amazing Animals

Henry's Amazing Animals is an educational children's nature program produced by Dorling Kindersley and originally broadcasted on the Disney Channel in 1996. Its following program was Audubon's Animal Adventures. It currently plays in syndication on Treehouse TV...

. During the series, Golden Gecko Awards were awarded to three animals in each episode.

Golden Gecko Awards

In each episode, Henry the Lizard, an anthropomorphic green gecko

Gecko

Geckos are lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 cm to 60 cm....

 with purple spots, awards a first, second, and third place Golden Gecko Award for animals featured. The first prize winner gets a detailed description.

Series 1

• Birds of Prey

1. Lammergeier
   Lammergeier
   The Lammergeier, Lammergeyer, or Bearded Vulture, Gypaetus barbatus , is the only member of the genus Gypaetus. Traditionally considered an Old World vulture, it actually forms a minor lineage of Accipitridae together with the Egyptian Vulture , its closest living relative...
   
    - Reason: Ultimate bone disposal units
2. King Vulture
   King Vulture
   The King Vulture is a large bird found in Central and South America. It is a member of the New World vulture family Cathartidae. This vulture lives predominantly in tropical lowland forests stretching from southern Mexico to northern Argentina, though some believe that William Bartram's Painted...
   
    - Reason: Most amazingly colorful bird of prey
3. Andean Condor
   Andean Condor
   The Andean Condor is a species of South American bird in the New World vulture family Cathartidae and is the only member of the genus Vultur...
   
    - Reason: Largest bird of prey

• Endangered Animals

1. Black Howler Monkey - Reason: Black monkey is very noisy
2. Siberian Tiger - Reason: Largest member of the feline family
3. Giant Panda
   Giant Panda
   The giant panda, or panda is a bear native to central-western and south western China. It is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. Though it belongs to the order Carnivora, the panda's diet is 99% bamboo...
   
    - Reason: This bear's a raccoon in China

• Scary Animals

1. Giant Squid
   Giant squid
   The giant squid is a deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae, represented by as many as eight species...
   
    - Reason: Sailors used to think it was a sea monster
2. Wolf - Reason: Its frightening howl can be heard from 10 miles away
3. Black Widow Spider - Reason: Its venom is 15 times stronger than that of a rattlesnake

• Seashore Animals

1. Pelican
   Pelican
   A pelican, derived from the Greek word πελεκυς pelekys is a large water bird with a large throat pouch, belonging to the bird family Pelecanidae....
   
    - Reason: It has a huge bill for catching fish.
2. Male Fiddler Crab
   Fiddler crab
   A fiddler crab, sometimes known as a calling crab, may be any of approximately 100 species of semi-terrestrial marine crabs which make up the genus Uca. As members of the family Ocypodidae, fiddler crabs are most closely related to the ghost crabs of the genus Ocypode. This entire group is composed...
   
    - Reason: He has one big claw for fighting with, and one little claw for eating with.
3. Female Sea Turtle
   Sea turtle
   Sea turtles are marine reptiles that inhabit all of the world's oceans except the Arctic.-Distribution:...
   
    - Reason: She lays in the sand, then buries them so no predators can get them.

Series 2

• Animal Appetites

1. Sea Otter
   Sea Otter
   The sea otter is a marine mammal native to the coasts of the northern and eastern North Pacific Ocean. Adult sea otters typically weigh between 14 and 45 kg , making them the heaviest members of the weasel family, but among the smallest marine mammals...
   
    - Reason: It uses its tummy as a table.
2. Goat
   Goat
   The domestic goat is a subspecies of goat domesticated from the wild goat of southwest Asia and Eastern Europe. The goat is a member of the Bovidae family and is closely related to the sheep as both are in the goat-antelope subfamily Caprinae. There are over three hundred distinct breeds of...
   
    - Reason: It will eat anything, from grass to tin cans
3. Koala
   Koala
   The koala is an arboreal herbivorous marsupial native to Australia, and the only extant representative of the family Phascolarctidae....
   
    - Reason: It only eats the leaves of eucalyptus trees, which are very poisonous.

• Animal Senses

1. Fennec fox - Reason: Its huge ears act like radiators, keeping the fox cool
2. Octopus
   Octopus
   The octopus is a cephalopod mollusc of the order Octopoda. Octopuses have two eyes and four pairs of arms, and like other cephalopods they are bilaterally symmetric. An octopus has a hard beak, with its mouth at the center point of the arms...
   
    - Reason: It uses its arms not only to touch, but also to taste
3. Komodo dragon
   Komodo dragon
   The Komodo dragon , also known as the Komodo monitor, is a large species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang and Gili Dasami. A member of the monitor lizard family , it is the largest living species of lizard, growing to a maximum length of in rare cases...
   
    - Reason: It can track down food from 2.5 miles away

• Animal Mothers

1. Atlantic Puffin
   Atlantic Puffin
   The Atlantic Puffin is a seabird species in the auk family. It is a pelagic bird that feeds primarily by diving for fish, but also eats other sea creatures, such as squid and crustaceans. Its most obvious characteristic during the breeding season is its brightly coloured bill...
   
    - Reason: Its Seabird mother is baby
2. Flying Fox - Reason: Its baby bat is mothers
3. Suriname Toad - Reason: Its frog is hole baby

Series 3

• Old World Animals

1. Dromedary Camel - Reason: It is a hunchback and lives in a desert
2. White Stork
   White Stork
   The White Stork is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae. Its plumage is mainly white, with black on its wings. Adults have long red legs and long pointed red beaks, and measure on average from beak tip to end of tail, with a wingspan...
   
    - Reason: It is a long-legged flying bird and forms flocks
3. Red Squirrel
   Red Squirrel
   The red squirrel or Eurasian red squirrel is a species of tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus common throughout Eurasia...
   
    - Reason: A rodent that lives in trees and eats nuts

• New World Animals

1. Jaguar
   Jaguar
   The jaguar is a big cat, a feline in the Panthera genus, and is the only Panthera species found in the Americas. The jaguar is the third-largest feline after the tiger and the lion, and the largest in the Western Hemisphere. The jaguar's present range extends from Southern United States and Mexico...
   
    - Reason: It is a carnivorous predator and an Amazon new world cat
2. American Bison
   American Bison
   The American bison , also commonly known as the American buffalo, is a North American species of bison that once roamed the grasslands of North America in massive herds...
   
    - Reason: They roam grasslands and are the buffalos of America
3. Northern Brown Bandicoot
   Northern Brown Bandicoot
   The Northern Brown Bandicoot , a marsupial species, is a bandicoot found only on the northern and eastern coasts of Australia and nearby islands, mainly Papua New Guinea. It is not, however, found far inland....
   
    - Reason: It is a small nocturnal marsupial

• Daytime Animals

1. White-crested Laughingthrush
   White-crested Laughingthrush
   The White-crested Laughingthrush, Garrulax leucolophus is an Old World babbler. It is found in forest and scrub from the Himalayan foothills to Indochina...
   
    - Reason: Those is Tropical Forest birds
2. Eastern Chipmunk
   Eastern Chipmunk
   The eastern chipmunk is a small squirrel-like rodent found in eastern North America, the sole living member of the chipmunk genus and subgenus Tamias....
   
    - Reason: are is small rodents
3. Eurasian Lynx
   Eurasian Lynx
   The Eurasian lynx is a medium-sized cat native to European and Siberian forests, South Asia and East Asia. It is also known as the European lynx, common lynx, the northern lynx, and the Siberian or Russian lynx...
   
    - Reason: Its only cat woodland

Series 4

• Animals Grassland

1. Red-legged Seriema
   Red-legged Seriema
   The Red-legged Seriema or Crested Cariama is a mostly predatory terrestrial bird in the seriema family , included in the "Gruiformes" in the old paraphyletic circumscription, but increasingly placed in a distinct order Cariamae...
   
    - Reason: This stalking are an south America birds
2. Sable Antelope
   Sable Antelope
   The Sable Antelope is an antelope which inhabits wooded savannah in East Africa south of Kenya, and in Southern Africa.-Subspecies:There are four subspecies:* H. n. niger which is considered low risk conservation dependent...
   
    - Reason: so are African savannah antelope
3. Giant Pangolin
   Giant Pangolin
   The Giant Pangolin is a pangolin species. Members of the species inhabit Africa with a range stretching along the equator from west Africa to Uganda. The Giant Pangolin is the largest species of pangolin, or "scaly anteaters" – the large, scaled mammals belonging to the Manidae family. It...
   
    - Reason: Is Scaly anteater who savannah

• East Asian animals

1. Red-crowned Crane
   Red-crowned Crane
   The Red-crowned Crane , also called the Japanese Crane or Manchurian Crane , is a large east Asian crane and among the rarest cranes in the world...
   
    - Reason: This is flying crane Japan
2. Japanese giant salamander
   Japanese giant salamander
   The Japanese giant salamander is endemic to Japan, where it is known as , literally meaning "giant pepper fish". With a length of up to almost 1.5 meters , it is the second largest salamander in the world, only being surpassed by the very similar and closely related Chinese giant salamander The...
   
    - Reason: this are largest salamanders
3. Raccoon dog
   Raccoon Dog
   The raccoon dog , also known as the magnut or tanuki, is a canid indigenous to east Asia. It is the only extant species in the genus Nyctereutes...
   
    - Reason: who is dog bandit resemble raccoon

• Central Asian animals

1. Mandarin Duck
   Mandarin Duck
   The Mandarin Duck , or just Mandarin, is a medium-sized perching duck, closely related to the North American Wood Duck. It is 41–49 cm long with a 65–75 cm wingspan.-Description:...
   
    - Reason: It Chinese Duck is was relation
2. Przewalski's Horse
   Przewalski's Horse
   Przewalski's Horse or Dzungarian Horse, is a rare and endangered subspecies of wild horse native to the steppes of central Asia, specifically China and Mongolia.At one time extinct in the wild, it has been reintroduced to its native habitat in Mongolia at the Khustain Nuruu...
   
    - Reason: Horse is grassland
3. Red Panda
   Red Panda
   The red panda , is a small arboreal mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. It is the only species of the genus Ailurus. Slightly larger than a domestic cat, it has reddish-brown fur, a long, shaggy tail, and a waddling gait due to its shorter front legs...
   
    - Reason: It Raccoon China interesting

Series 5

• Underwater Animals

1. Humpback Whale
   Humpback Whale
   The humpback whale is a species of baleen whale. One of the larger rorqual species, adults range in length from and weigh approximately . The humpback has a distinctive body shape, with unusually long pectoral fins and a knobbly head. It is an acrobatic animal, often breaching and slapping the...
   
    - Reason: Its large ocean marine mammals
2. Giant Squid
   Giant squid
   The giant squid is a deep-ocean dwelling squid in the family Architeuthidae, represented by as many as eight species...
   
    - Reason: Its is sea squid monster
3. Water Scorpion - Reason: Its oceanic scorpion

• Tropical birds

1. Paradise Whydah
   Paradise Whydah
   Five species of indigobird are known as Paradise Whydah:* Togo Paradise Whydah, Vidua togoensis* Long-tailed Paradise Whydah, Vidua interjecta* Eastern Paradise Whydah, Vidua paradisaea* Northern Paradise Whydah, Vidua orientalis...
   
    - Reason: Its bird is jumping wydahs
2. Toco Toucan
   Toco Toucan
   The Toco Toucan is the largest and probably the best known species in the toucan family. It is found in semi-open habitats throughout a large part of central and eastern South America...
   
    - Reason: Its birds of amazon
3. Hornbill
   Hornbill
   Hornbills are a family of bird found in tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia and Melanesia. They are characterized by a long, down-curved bill which is frequently brightly-colored and sometimes has a casque on the upper mandible. Both the common English and the scientific name of the family...
   
    - Reason: Its leaping birds of jungle

• Giant Animals

1. Giraffe
   Giraffe
   The giraffe is an African even-toed ungulate mammal, the tallest of all extant land-living animal species, and the largest ruminant...
   
    - Reason: Its animals of long neck savannah
2. Komodo Dragon
   Komodo dragon
   The Komodo dragon , also known as the Komodo monitor, is a large species of lizard found in the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang and Gili Dasami. A member of the monitor lizard family , it is the largest living species of lizard, growing to a maximum length of in rare cases...
   
    - Reason: Its large lizard island komodo
3. Humpback Whale
   Humpback Whale
   The humpback whale is a species of baleen whale. One of the larger rorqual species, adults range in length from and weigh approximately . The humpback has a distinctive body shape, with unusually long pectoral fins and a knobbly head. It is an acrobatic animal, often breaching and slapping the...
   
   - Reason: Its whale largest sea