Type “rainforest fauna” into Google and you’ll get the Amazon, every time. Fair enough — it’s the biggest rainforest on Earth and the one every nature documentary defaults to. But…
Cuba is an island shaped like a crocodile, and it’s not a coincidence that one of the world’s rarest crocodiles calls it home. Isolated from the mainland for millions of…
TL;DR Yes — several crocodile species live in and around forests, just not in the open rivers most people picture. The West African dwarf crocodile and the slender-snouted crocodile both…
Figs make up roughly 60% of what an Eastern hoolock gibbon eats when fruit is available, and fruit overall accounts for around 65% of feeding time across the year. That’s…
Costa Rica packs more than 900 recorded bird species into a country roughly the size of West Virginia. That’s more species than the United States and Canada combined, in a…
South America split off from the other continents early enough, and stayed isolated long enough, that its reptiles had millions of years to go their own way. The result is…
Table of Contents Why Russia Has More Reptiles Than You’d Think Russia doesn’t read as reptile country. Say “Russian wildlife” and most people picture brown bears, reindeer, and permafrost —…
Most “Animals of Sudan” lists are actually lists of animals from South Sudan wearing a hand-me-down name. That’s not a knock on the writers — before 2011, Sudan and South…
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…