Meet the largest living anteater in the world.
Meet some lizards that can rebreathe underwater.
Learn about the discovery of a tiny new frog species in northern Costa Rica.
This year World Otter Day is May 25. Let’s celebrate these amazing, water-loving, playful, carnivorous mammals.
1. True or False? A tapir looks like nature put a shortened elephant trunk on a pig, but tapirs are really relatives of horses and rhinos.
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 largest living bird in the world and it’s perching here now – welcome the…
A spotted skunk performing its signature handstand. Image by Jerry W. Dragoo courtesy of the Field Museum. Have you ever seen a skunk do a handstand? If you do, then run away! Otherwise, you are about to get sprayed. Spotted skunks are the handstand champions…
Romi explains the habits of the crab-eating raccoon: Poster idea! Create a poster to compare the crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus) with its North American cousin, the common raccoon (Procyon lotor) … something like this: Use the Candid Animal Cam video to help you answer questions…
Check out these bush dogs caught on camera trap! Get to know me: I am a bush dog (scientific name: Speothos venaticus). I am a canid – a canid is a group of dog-like mammals that includes foxes, wolves, coyotes, jackals, dingoes, and other dog-like species.…
This time on Candid Animal Cam, Romi introduces the tayra, a widespread member of the weasel family, found in Mexico and Central and South America … Read more on Mongabay: https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/what-is-a-tayra-candid-animal-cam-is-in-the-americas/ Look at me, I’m a tayra! Image: Ninahale, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia…
Conservation aims to protect nature for the benefit of all people. How can we save nature and use it at the same time?