Hello, I’m an eastern lesser bamboo lemur (scientific name: Hapalemur griseus). I live in Madagascar and I like to eat … you guessed it: bamboo! More learning resources Duke Lemur Center: Learn more the eastern lesser bamboo lemur *Mongabay Kids is not responsible for content…
Seheno Corduant-Andriantsaralaza is a conservation biologist with a passion for protecting the biodiversity of Madagascar. Today, Seheno shares what she’s learned from her research about Madagascar’s mighty baobab trees!
Fitting Beauty the bald eagle with a prosthetic beak. Image courtesy of Janie Veltkamp. The science of creating prosthetics, artificially created replacements for injured or missing body parts, is rapidly advancing for humans. And now, researchers are using the same technology to help injured wildlife.…
From across the forests and savannas, mountains, oceans, and skies of the world, welcome to a celebration of the animals that you know and love – it’s the … It’s the world’s largest land mammal and it packed its trunk just to be here ……
Color by number to reveal who is hiding in the picture! By Megan Strauss. Created in partnership with the Wild Nature Institute.
Butterflies do all kinds of cool things. They fly, pollinate plants, and slurp nectar out of flowers with tongues as long as their bodies. They also help rediscover plants that have been missing since 1888! Himesh Dilruwan Jayasinghe was chasing a small leopard butterfly (named…
Have some fun with mindful coloring!
This time on Candid Animal Cam, Romi introduces the wild boar: Tell us what you know about wild boars! Have you seen a wild boar before? What did you think when you saw it? Was it alone or in a group? Were you scared, excited,…
From across the forests and savannas, mountains, oceans, and skies of the world, welcome to a celebration of the animals that you know and love – it’s the … It’s the tallest land mammal in the world. You know it by its spots and long…
Did you know that the lizards in the Western Ghats mountain region of India do their own stunts? The Western Ghats are called a biodiversity hotspot for species of lizards and amphibians because there are so many endemic species there, meaning species found there and…
A female hoolock gibbon photographed in the Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary. Image by Miraj Hussain via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). There is only one type of ape in India, the hoolock gibbon. Several families of hoolock gibbons live in Hoollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary in India’s northeastern state of…