Nigeria packs an absurd range of habitats into one country. Sahel scrub and acacia savanna up north give way to the Jos and Mambilla plateaus, then drop into dense rainforest…
Most “fluffy cat breeds” lists pad the count with cats that are all coat and no cat. A Persian looks enormous until you pick one up and find six pounds…
The Philippines isn’t just a country with a lot of wildlife. It’s one of the most concentrated bursts of endemism on the planet. Roughly half the land vertebrates here live…
The Arctic is a place where breathing wrong can freeze the inside of your nose, and yet roughly 21,000 species call it home — from microscopic algae locked in sea…
Palau is a string of more than 300 islands scattered across the western Pacific, and that isolation is exactly what makes it so vulnerable. For millions of years, the plants…
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…