Table of Contents The Short Answer Shepherd’s beaked whale eats squid, deep-sea fish, and crab. That’s it — no elaborate mystery, just three prey categories pulled from the guts of…
Mammals of Malawi: What You Can Actually See, and Where
Most lists of Malawi’s mammals read like a museum catalog: order, family, genus, species, IUCN code, repeat. Useful if you’re cataloging a country’s biodiversity for a thesis. Less useful if…
20 Birds of Burkina Faso You’ll Actually See (Plus Where to Look)
TLDR Burkina Faso holds more than 500 recorded bird species, from six vulture species teetering on the edge to a crane that struts around cattle like it owns them. Your…
Reptiles of Egypt: 13 Species That Rule the Nile, Desert and Sea
Table of Contents Egypt sits where three worlds collide: the Nile splitting a continent of sand, the Mediterranean lapping one coast, the Red Sea another. That’s a strange amount of…
What Do Grauer’s Gorillas Eat? The Eastern Lowland Gorilla Diet
Table of Contents The short answer Grauer’s gorillas — also called eastern lowland gorillas — are almost entirely herbivorous, working through roughly 100 different plant species across their range in…
What Do Brazilian Agoutis Actually Eat?
TLDR Brazilian agoutis (most commonly the red-rumped agouti, Dasyprocta leporina) eat mostly fruit, nuts, and seeds — with Brazil nuts and Araucaria pine seeds as regional specialties — plus roots,…
Mammals of Afghanistan: Wildlife of the Hindu Kush
TLDR Afghanistan holds somewhere between 118 and 150 mammal species, and almost all of the interesting ones live in the same place: the vertical stack of terrain running from the…
The World’s Most Dangerous Arachnids, Ranked by Actual Risk
Quick correction before anything else: there’s no such thing as a poisonous spider. Poison is something you eat or absorb through skin; venom is something injected through a bite or…
What Do Bonobos Eat? Their Diet, Broken Down
TLDR Bonobos are frugivorous omnivores. Roughly 57% of their diet is fruit, another 30% or so is leaves, stems, and other plant matter (THV — terrestrial herbaceous vegetation), and meat…