Table of Contents The Quick Answer Hairy-nosed otters (Lutra sumatrana) eat mostly fish, followed by crabs, water snakes, mollusks, frogs, and the occasional waterbird. Fish dominates almost everywhere they’re found,…
12 Animals Only Found in Cameroon
Cameroon’s coast runs into rainforest, and the rainforest runs into a chain of extinct volcanoes that climbs to nearly 4,100 meters at Mount Cameroon before flattening into savanna near Lake…
20 Animals of Western Europe (And Where to Spot Them)
Most “animals of Europe” guides treat the continent as one giant block, running you through polar bears’ Arctic cousins and Balkan brown bears in the same breath as a hedgehog…
20 Animals of Saudi Arabia, From Desert to Red Sea
Table of Contents Most lists of Saudi Arabian animals are really just oryx-and-camel lists with a leopard photo tacked on for drama. The country’s wildlife is a lot stranger and…
Swamp Herbivores: The Complete Guide to Wetland Grazers
TLDR Swamp herbivores are the plant-eaters built to live half-submerged: webbed or splayed feet for walking on mud, buoyant bodies for swimming, and a diet of cattails, water lilies, and…
Ivory Coast’s Native Plants: A Field Guide by Region
Most write-ups on Ivory Coast’s native plants are taxonomy lists — a Wikipedia category page, a paragraph buried inside a wildlife article, a dry entry in a country encyclopedia. None…
Amphibians of East Timor: A Field Guide to 7 Species
Table of Contents TLDR East Timor has seven confirmed amphibian species, all frogs and toads — no salamanders, no caecilians. In order of how often you’ll run into them: the…
What Do Chacoan Peccaries Eat? Inside Their Cactus Diet
Quick Answer Chacoan peccaries eat mostly cactus — spines, pulp, and all. Their diet is built around a handful of Opuntia species, supplemented with fruit, acacia and mesquite pods, bromeliad…
Amphibians of Libya: Every Species, Explained
TLDR Libya’s amphibian list is short: the Sahara frog (Pelophylax saharicus) along the northern coast, the African green toad (Bufotes boulengeri) almost everywhere there’s seasonal water, and the subdesert toad…