Step on a fallen log in a tropical rainforest and you’ll likely disturb both of these animals within the same square meter — and they could not be doing more…
Which Buffalo Species Are Endangered? A Full Breakdown
Quick disambiguation before we start: if you landed here looking for wildlife near Buffalo, New York, this isn’t that. “Buffalo” as a search term almost always means the animal —…
What Do Muriquis Eat? A Northern Muriqui Diet Guide
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,…
Animals Only Found in Scotland: The Real Endemics
Type “animals only found in Scotland” into Google and you’ll get red deer, otters, and puffins staring back at you from every result. None of those are endemic to Scotland….
Plants of Chile: A Climate-by-Climate Field Guide
Table of Contents Why Isolation Made Chile a Plant Factory Chile is a strip of land 2,650 miles long and, on average, about 110 miles wide, boxed in on every…
“Amphibians of Belize: A Quick-ID Field Guide”
TL;DR Table of Contents How Many Amphibian Species Actually Live in Belize Roughly 37 amphibian species have been documented in Belize, spread across true frogs, treefrogs, toads, a scattering of…
Boreal Forest Consumers: Who Eats Whom in the Taiga
Table of Contents The Quick Answer Boreal forest (taiga) consumers break into three tiers. Primary consumers — snowshoe hares, red squirrels, moose, voles, spruce budworm caterpillars — eat the plants…
What Do Muskrats Eat? A Real Look at Their Diet
TLDR Muskrats are mostly herbivores. Cattails, rushes, water lilies, sedges, and pondweed make up the bulk of what they eat, and they’ll go after the roots and stems as readily…
Fruits of Turkey: A Season-by-Season Guide
Table of Contents Turkey grows somewhere around 75 of the roughly 138 fruit species that exist on Earth, a stat every Turkish tourism board loves to repeat and one that…