Ask someone what grows in Suriname and you’ll probably get “rainforest” as the answer, full stop. Fair enough — over 90% of the country is unbroken Amazonian forest, one of…
TLDR Red-fronted lemurs eat fruit, leaves, flowers, bark, and the occasional insect or fungus — but which of those dominates depends entirely on where in Madagascar the troop lives. In…
Table of Contents Vanuatu’s Forest Zones Vanuatu compresses a remarkable range of forest types into a Y-shaped chain of eighty-plus islands. A single large island — Santo, Malekula, or Tanna…
Walk into a temperate forest in April and again in August and you’d swear you visited two different places. The April version is open and bright, the floor carpeted in…
Timor-Leste is the kind of place that doesn’t make most wildlife documentaries, which is exactly why its biodiversity loss flies under the radar. This half-island nation sits inside the Coral…
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…
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….