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Crowned lemur in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler For the month of December, I'll be posting some of my favorite pictures from 2012. All of these photos were taken…

Female black lemur on Nosy Komba, an island off northern Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler For the month of December, I'll be posting some of my favorite pictures from…

A captive fossa near Andasibe, Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler The fossa is Madagascar's largest carnivore. While it looks like a cross between a puma and a dog, the…

Ankarana Sportive Lemur (Lepilemur ankaranensis) in Ankarana, Madagascar. I just returned from 3+ weeks in Madagascar where I was looking into the illegal rosewood trade and other stories. I'll be…

The skull of America’s biggest cat in Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development in Guyana. Photo by: Tiffany Roufs. The jaguar (Panthera onca) is classified as Near Threatened…

For those living in North America, this animal is one of the most commonly sighted: the grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis). It is also an invasive species in Britain, Ireland, Italy,…

Borugo in Colombia. The Borugo or Mountain Paca is a large seed-eating rodent found in the montane forests of South America. It is commonly hunted for its meat. More photos…

Tree-climbing lion of Uganda. The lions of Queen Elizabeth National Park in western Uganda spend an unusual amount of time in trees. It's unclear why they exhibit this behavior, but…

The blue monkey -- also known as Sykes' Monkey (Cercopithecus albogularis) -- on Mt Kenya. The Kenyan government recently announced plans to build an electric fence around Mt. Kenya to…

Today is International Red Panda Day, which aims help to raise awareness about red pandas. Dozens of zoos around the world are participating in this year's event. This Red Panda…

Fruit stuffed in its mouth, this long-tailed macaque peeks at the photographer from a rooftop in Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. To see other photos of the…

Bats hang out in a limestone cave in Malaysia's Taman Negara National Park. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2006. To see other photos from caves in Malaysia: Malaysian caves.

Hunters orphaned this baby giant anteater in Peru. Photo by Paul Rosolie. There are places in the Amazon that remain almost untouched by any kind of development. Animals here, according…

Jaguar skull in Guyana. Jaguars are the biggest cat in the Americas. Photo by: Tiffany Roufs. More Guyana photos.

A cheetah rests on a termite mound in Kenya. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. A three year study has found that cheetahs and African wild dogs have vanished from Cameroon.…

We watched this wily gray-footed chacma baboon (Papio ursinus griseipes) for a good fifteen minutes as it posed for us in the Okavango Delta. Photo by: Tiffany Roufs, 2009. Photo…

African buffalo at sunset in the Maasai Mara, the Kenyan side of the world famous Serengeti plains. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. A planned road in Tanzania threatens to cut…

An infant crested black macaque (Macaca nigra). Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2010. Endemic to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, the crested black macaque is listed as Critically Endangered by…

The small wild cat, the margay in Belize. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. Researchers have stumbled on a surprising talent of this small predatory cat: while studying the pied tamarin…

The elusive forest buffalo in Gabon. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. While most people are familiar with the African buffalo or cape buffalo (Syncerus caffer), its forest-dwelling subspecies (Syncerus caffer…

An orphaned baby three-toed sloth lies on top of a stuffed panda. The sloth was being kept in a Trio indigenous community in Suriname. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2008.…

A group of white-nosed coatis are on the move in Costa Rica. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2009. To see more photos of mammals in Costa Rica: Mammals.

Unidentified bee approaching an unidentified bird of paradise flower. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. At mongabay.com we love to take photos. However, sometimes it proves difficult to decipher what species…

Capuchin monkey in Suriname shows off. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2008. To see more photos of capuchins: Capuchin monkeys.

Along the Karakoram highway in the Xinjjiang province of Western China, men drive their yaks. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2006. To see more photos of the highway: Karakoram highway…

A common woolly monkey at a rehabilitation center in Colombia for animals trafficked in the pet trade. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2010. The common woolly monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha) is…

Mother and baby orangutan at Camp Leaky. Photo by Janie Dubman. The lives of over 200 people have been linked to orangutans for 40 years. The people are biologists, firefighters,…

Like some prehistoric beast, a hippo rises from a mudflat on the Chobe River that it shares with dozens of other hippos. Photo by: Tiffany Roufs, Botswana, 2009. To see…

An unidentified rodent from Xinjiang, China. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2006. I have not been able to indentify this species. If you can help, please contact me. To see…

French conservationist, Stephanie Vergniault stands between two soldiers in the central African nation of Chad. Before them lies the skull of a poached elephant. Photo courtesy of: Stephanie Vergniault. Amid…