More than half of all land animals and plants on Earth live in rainforests, even though these forests cover about 6% of the planet’s land surface. That number gets quoted…
Look up in a tropical rainforest and most of the orchids aren’t in the soil. They’re 30 meters overhead, wedged into the bark of a branch, roots dangling in open…
New Brunswick has a flower that grows nowhere else on Earth except a few muddy banks of one river — and it’s almost gone. In 2002, surveyors counted 915 Furbish’s…
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…
In a forest that swings from berry-heavy autumns to frozen, prey-scarce winters, the animals that thrive are the ones that aren’t picky. A pure plant-eater struggles when the leaves drop….
The full checklist for this part of the continent runs past 600 species, which is useless if what you actually want is to know what to look for and where…
Tuvalu has roughly 37 recorded bird species. That’s not a typo, and it’s not a sign of a thin checklist someone forgot to finish. It’s the honest total for one…