Every big fluffy dog looks the same in a photo: a cloud with a nose. The differences show up in month three, when you’re brushing for an hour, hauling a…
Ghana’s rarest animals aren’t hiding in some remote corner of the map. Most live in a handful of forest reserves and one savanna park, and a few of them cling…
An omnivore is an animal that regularly eats both plants and other animals. That’s the definition. The characteristics below explain how omnivores pull it off, and why being a generalist…
TLDR No breed is safe on its own. Temperament varies within every breed, and the adult in the room matters more than the dog’s pedigree. Table of Contents How we…
TLDR Tabby is a coat pattern, not a breed. Bengals, Egyptian Maus, Abyssinians and Ocicats are the breeds where tabby is the signature look. American Shorthairs, Maine Coons and a…
TLDR Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys (Rhinopithecus avunculus) are mostly leaf-eaters. Their diet is built on young leaves and leaf stems from evergreen trees, vines and bamboo, with fruit, flowers and seeds…
Table of Contents TLDR Nyalas are herbivores and mixed feeders: they browse and they graze. Most of what they eat is leaves, but the menu also includes fruits, seed pods,…
A Philippine porcupine (Hystrix pumila) eats fruit, roots, tubers, bark, bulbs, and seeds, gathered on nighttime foraging walks that can cover up to 16 kilometers. It’s a picky-looking but opportunistic…
TLDR The highland mangabey — better known as the kipunji — is a fruit-heavy omnivore. Ripe and unripe fruit make up the bulk of its diet, backed up by leaves,…