Gilbert’s potoroo eats fungi. Not “mostly plants with some mushrooms mixed in” — actual underground fungi, the kind you’d need a shovel to find, make up more than 90% of…
“Black bird” and “blackbird” are not the same search. One is a color description that fits half the birds in your yard. The other is a specific family — Icteridae…
Cuba is an island shaped like a crocodile, and it’s not a coincidence that one of the world’s rarest crocodiles calls it home. Isolated from the mainland for millions of…
TL;DR Yes — several crocodile species live in and around forests, just not in the open rivers most people picture. The West African dwarf crocodile and the slender-snouted crocodile both…
Figs make up roughly 60% of what an Eastern hoolock gibbon eats when fruit is available, and fruit overall accounts for around 65% of feeding time across the year. That’s…
Costa Rica packs more than 900 recorded bird species into a country roughly the size of West Virginia. That’s more species than the United States and Canada combined, in a…
South America split off from the other continents early enough, and stayed isolated long enough, that its reptiles had millions of years to go their own way. The result is…
Table of Contents Why Russia Has More Reptiles Than You’d Think Russia doesn’t read as reptile country. Say “Russian wildlife” and most people picture brown bears, reindeer, and permafrost —…
Table of Contents TLDR Northern muriquis are leaf specialists first, fruit opportunists second. Across a year of feeding records at Fazenda Montes Claros, leaves made up 51% of their diet,…