Amazon Wildlife
Amazon Wildlife
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Endangered Species Rainforest Gorillas
The gorilla is the largest of the world’s apes, with a large male stand[ez-toc]ing as tall as an average-size man and weighing as much as 450 pounds (205kg). Fully mature…
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Record Size Bear Family
Photographer Tom Sears distributed this photo of a mother black bear and her five cubs in northern New Hampshire. It is extremely rare for a black bear to have this…
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Wolf Hunt Could Backfire
Several studies on dingoes, the wild dogs of Australia, strongly suggest that “controlling” wolves by allowing hunting could cause ranchers in the Rockies to lose more, rather than fewer, cattle…
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Rain Forest Tigers, Leopards, Jaguars And Lions
In the Amazon and other rain forests of the New World the jaguar is the top predator. In some South and Central American countries the popular name for this big…
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Leatherback Sea Turtle
The leatherback sea turtle (Demochelys coriacea) is the earth’s biggest turtle and has the largest range of any species, swimming all over the globe from the tropics to the sub-polar…
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Amazon Fish Vanishing
Today’s Wildlife News & Wild Animal Facts The New York Times has a front-page story this morning quoting members of a major indigenous Amazon rainforest tribe, the Kamayurá, as saying…
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