Search for tropical land animals and you’ll get a wall of jaguars and sloths. That’s fair, but it’s half the story. The tropics also hold savannas, mangrove edges and dry…
Indonesia has somewhere between 24,000 and 30,000 species of vascular plants, and roughly 3,800 of them are orchids. That’s more plant diversity packed into a chain of 17,000-odd islands than…
Table of contents The plants of the Netherlands are shaped by one fact: almost nothing here is far from water, and a large part of the country was water not…
Cyprus has roughly 1,650 native plant species and subspecies, and about 142 of them grow nowhere else on Earth. That’s a lot of endemism for an island of 9,251 square…
Table of Contents The Amazon holds roughly one in ten of all known species on Earth, and a surprising share of them fit in your hand. This list covers 12…
Contents Nearly a third of the plant species growing in Acadia aren’t from here. That is the headline fact about invasive species in Acadia National Park, and it surprises people…
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…
TLDR Trinidad and Tobago host 35 confirmed amphibian species across 12 families, and every single one is a frog or toad — the islands have no native salamanders and only…
TLDR Mexican agoutis (Dasyprocta mexicana) are frugivores — roughly 87% of their diet is fruit, with the rest split between soft seeds, new-growth leaves, bark, and the occasional insect. They…