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A group of western lowland gorillas in the Congo Basin. Photo courtesy of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). A new study in PLoS ONE shows that protected areas are essential…

Triplet African Lion Cubs. Julie Larsen Maher © Wildlife Conservation Society. The Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo today debuts triplet lion cubs. The cubs, born January 27, 2010, can be…

Along the Chobe River in Botswana, the white-hot sun of Africa falls behind an elephant feeding in the grasses. Photo by: Tiffany Roufs. To see more photos of sunsets and…

Silver leaf langur baby in the Bronx Zoo’s JungleWorld exhibit. Photo by Julie Larsen Maher ©WCS. The silver leaf langur baby has a striking orange color in comparison to its…

Baby brown collared lemur clinging to its mother's back in the Bronx Zoo’s Madagascar! exhibit. Photo by Julie Larsen Maher ©WCS. The Bronx Zoo has put a recently-born, female brown…

Weighing well-over 100 pounds, the capybara is the world's largest rodent. It is present in much of South America, including the Amazon rainforest and flooded savannahs. This photograph was taken…

Sibu, a male babirusa at the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Bronx Zoo, spends a warm spring day in his exhibit at Zoo Center after taking a refreshing mud bath. Photo by…

The pygmy marmoset is the world's smallest monkey. Photo taken by Rhett A. Butler, March 2010 in Amacayacu National Park, Colombia, near the border with Peru. The Pygmy Marmoset (Cebuella…

This woolly monkey is just one of some 30 species of Colombian primates. Photo by: Brodie Ferguson, 2006. A new study in the open access journal Tropical Conservation Science looks…

Madagascar is home to some strange and wonderful animals, but few stranger and more wonderful than the tenrecs. Belonging to the family of Afrotheria, the small shrew-like tenrecs are most…

A baby bat in Brazil clinging to a napkin. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler, 2009. Mongabay.com has been unable to identify the species of this bat. If you know the…

The Critically Endangered pygmy three-toed sloth is endemic to a small island off the coast of Panama. Photo courtesy of Bryson Voirin. The world's smallest sloth is threatened by human…

The practice of traditional medicine in China incorporates a wide variety of body parts taken from wild animals, making it one of the largest threats to animals in Asia. For…

Flying over the Okavango Delta in Botswana is a great opportunity to get an aerial view of big mammals, such as this good-sized herd of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer). Photo…

Agoutis, such as this Central American agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) mother with babies, deserve a lot of respect. These large rainforest rodents are seed specialists and play a major role in…

The jaguar Panthera onca is classified as Near Threatened: a previous six-week expedition to Rewa Head observed ten jaguars. Photo by: Ashley Holland and Gordon Duncan. Guyana bans gold mining…

Captive okapi. Photo by Rhett A. Butler Twelve-year-old on a mission to save Africa's most unusual animal, the okapi, an interview with Spencer Tait (02/16/2010) Anyone who says a kid…

South China Tiger in South Africa, where Save China's Tigers has established a "rewilding" facility to eventually enable to reintroduction of the South China Tiger into its native habitat in…

Cave snake catching and eating a bat in flight. Photo by Rhett A Butler, 2006. Taman Negara, Malaysia.

Coquerel's sifakas grooming in Madagascar. Photo by Rhett A. Butler 2010. Madagascar is in the midst of an appalling logging crisis driven by greed and politics. Here's a proposal for…

Lion with kill in Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania. Photo by Rhett A. Butler, 2007 Why top predators matter: an in-depth look at new research (02/02/2010) Few species have faced such vitriolic…

Gray Mouse Lemur (Microcebus murinus). Photo by Rhett A. Butler 2009. New research supports the long-held belief that Madagascar's mammals populated the island by rafting on clumps of vegetation across…

Humpback breaching in Alaska's Inside Passage. Photos by Rhett A. Butler 2007. It is still unclear why whales breach. Theories range from social signaling (danger, dominance, courting), stunning prey, to…

Baby orangutan in Sabah, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler 2008. Orangutans vs palm oil in Malaysia: setting the record straight The Malaysian palm oil industry has been broadly accused…

Black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata). Photo taken in October 2009 by Rhett A. Butler The Black-and-white ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata) lives in Madagascar's eastern rainforests. Surveys of village residents near…

Sloth in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler (1996) Best wishes for 2010!

Jaguar in the Pantanal. This jaguar came a little too close for comfort on a trip to the Pantanal this past April. The big cat emerged from a swampy area…

Borneo rhino. Photo and story by Jeremy Hance. Nothing can really prepare a person for coming face-to-face with what may be the last of a species. I had known for…

These male sifakas are in the midst of a territorial dispute. The dominant male is chasing off another male Verreaux's sifaka from southern Madagascar is known as the dancing lemur…