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The Wild Pest
Book
Open Data · CC BY 4.0

The whole corpus, free to use.

The Wild Files corpus is published as open data under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. JSON download. Public API. Embeddable widgets. Cite the source and it’s yours — for journalism, education, research, AI grounding, anything.

501
Species files
2,526
Cited facts
9
Most-Wanted lists
5
Tall Tales

JSON download

The full corpus, served fresh from the registry.

/api/wild-files/data

Single-species JSON

Append ?slug=atlas-moth to fetch one file.

/api/wild-files/data?slug=atlas-moth

Embeddable widget

Drop a Wild File into any blog or site.

/wild-files/embed/atlas-moth

License & attribution

CC BY 4.0. Attribute as: The Wild Files — The Wild Pest Ltd.

creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Quick example

# Fetch the whole corpus
curl https://thewildpest.com/api/wild-files/data | jq

# Fetch one species
curl 'https://thewildpest.com/api/wild-files/data?slug=bullet-ant' | jq

# Embed a card on your site
<iframe
  src="https://thewildpest.com/wild-files/embed/atlas-moth"
  width="640" height="380" frameborder="0"
  loading="lazy" referrerpolicy="no-referrer"
  title="The Wild Files — Atlas Moth">
</iframe>

Citation format

When you reproduce or quote substantially, cite as:

The Wild Files. (2026). The Wild Pest Ltd.
Retrieved from https://thewildpest.com/wild-files/

Press / academic / research inquiries: [email protected]