Romi introduces us to the Spix’s night monkey, a small nocturnal monkey from South America. Also, learn about animal activity patterns!
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.
Have you heard of an animal called a gray brocket deer? If not, watch this episode of Candid Animal Cam!
When we think of cats, we don’t usually think of water. A few species of cats do love water however, and do swim. One of those species is the jaguar.
Chocolate frogs are an important part of the diet of young wizards and witches at Hogwarts. You can also buy chocolate frogs if you visit a Harry Potter theme park. A team of scientists exploring the peatlands of the Amazon rainforest in Peru found chocolate frogs…
We travel to meet armadillo expert and conservation scientist, Mariella Superina. Check out her video of a pichi and learn all about amazing armadillos!
Learn about young people taking action to restore forests and care for the environment in Colombia.
Meet a ratite you may not know, the great tinamou.
Watch the video to learn about this raccoon from Central and South America.
Meet a rare little creature called the Chacoan fairy armadillo: Things to know: The Chacoan fairy armadillo is an extremely rare mammal, although its exact numbers are not known. It is very small: about 4-6 inches (10-15 cm) long. It is sometimes called a pink…
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…