Mongoose lemurs are primarily frugivores — fruit is the backbone of their diet — but the full answer is more interesting than that, because what they eat depends heavily on…
Timor-Leste covers a little under 15,000 square kilometers, sits inside the Wallacea biodiversity hotspot, and has never had a comprehensive, species-by-species accounting of what’s eating it from the inside. Most…
Hoary marmots are strict herbivores, and their diet is almost entirely green: grasses, sedges, and the flowering plants that carpet alpine meadows in summer. If you’ve ever watched one of…
First, the disambiguation, because Google is confused too: this is the drill monkey (Mandrillus leucophaeus), not a power tool and not the snail that bores holes in oyster shells. It’s…
Nilgai are mixed feeders. They eat grasses, herbs, leaves, twigs, fruits, flowers, and seed pods — and they switch between grazing and browsing depending on what’s in front of them…
Lowe’s otter civets eat fish, crabs, freshwater mollusks, and other small aquatic prey, supplemented by birds, small mammals, and fruit they grab by climbing. That’s the short answer. The longer…
Moldova is small, landlocked, and farmed harder than almost anywhere else in Europe. More than half its land is plowed cropland, which means wild habitat here doesn’t get the luxury…
Most “forest animals” lists give you the same cast: deer, bear, fox, owl, repeat. Useful if you’re six. Less useful if you already know a raccoon when you see one….
White cats catch your eye. White cats with green eyes stop you cold. That combination is genuinely uncommon, and there’s a reason for it rooted in the same genetics that…