TLDR African palm civets (Nandinia binotata) are omnivores that lean hard on fruit — figs, corkwood, Uapaca berries, and oil palm pulp make up roughly 80% of what turns up…
TLDR Black musk deer (Moschus fuscus) are picky eaters with a hard seasonal split. In summer they graze herbaceous plants — buckwheat, wild geranium, grasses, spirea. Once the snow comes,…
Most “endangered African animals” lists lump rhinos, lions, and elephants from the savanna in with rainforest species like okapi and gorillas, as if a Congo Basin frog and a Serengeti…
Eritrea doesn’t get the safari-brochure treatment that Kenya or Tanzania does, and that’s exactly why its mammal list is worth a closer look. Squeezed between the Red Sea, the Ethiopian…
Table of Contents Every “pink animals” list on the internet eventually shows you a flamingo, then a dolphin, then calls it a day. Neither belongs here. A flamingo is five…
TLDR Red-backed voles are opportunistic omnivores that change menus with the calendar: tender shoots and leaf petioles in spring, berries and fruit through summer, nuts and seeds in fall, and…
TLDR Peru holds more than 25,000 native plant species, and roughly 5,354 of them grow nowhere else on Earth. That density comes from geography, not luck — a coastal desert,…
Table of Contents France isn’t just Paris and vineyards. Squeeze four mountain ranges, a Mediterranean coastline, an Atlantic seaboard, and a chunk of temperate forest into one country and you…
Most lists of Malawi’s mammals read like a museum catalog: order, family, genus, species, IUCN code, repeat. Useful if you’re cataloging a country’s biodiversity for a thesis. Less useful if…