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The Harpy Eagle Has Talons the Size of a Grizzly Bear’s Claws.
Harpy eagle facts reveal why this Amazon rainforest raptor is often described as one of the world’s most powerful birds of prey. There is an eagle in the Amazon rainforest that is large enough to look a grown person in…
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The Jaguar’s Bite. The Most Powerful Secret in the Amazon.
There is a recording made by wildlife biologist Alan Rabinowitz deep in the Cockscomb Basin of Belize in the 1980s that I…
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Why Mandrill Face Color Is So Extreme: The Biology Behind It
I remember the first time I saw a mandrill up close, not in a photograph, but through the glass of a primate…
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The Aye-Aye: Madagascar’s Most Misunderstood Creature
The first time I saw an aye-aye, its finger was already inside the tree. All I could see in the beam of…
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The Pygmy Marmoset: How the World’s Smallest Monkey Survives the Amazon
There is a moment, documented by primatologist Cristina Lazaro-Perea during fieldwork in the Ecuadorian Amazon, where a pygmy marmoset freezes mid-climb on…
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