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The Olive Baboon Lives in 25 African Countries. Here's What Makes It the Continent's Ultimate Survivor.
Few primates on Earth are as adaptable, intelligent, or socially complex as the olive baboon. From the rainforests of West Africa to the open savannas of East Africa and the highlands of Ethiopia, this remarkable animal has conquered more of the continent than almost any other primate — and the reasons why will genuinely surprise you. Meet the Olive Baboon (Papio anubis) The olive baboon —…
Scientists Say the Gibbon's Song Is One of the Most Complex Vocal Performances in the Animal Kingdom. Here's Why.
At dawn, in the rainforests of Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia, before the heat of the day has settled and while the mist still hangs between the trees, the forest fills with sound. It begins with a single voice — a series of rising notes, pure and clear, carrying through the canopy for up to two kilometres. Then a second voice joins — higher, more elaborate, weaving around the first in a…
The Manta Ray Has the Largest Brain of Any Fish on Earth. Here's What It's Using It For.
For most of human history, fish were considered simple creatures — driven by instinct, incapable of learning, without memory, without social bonds, without anything resembling the inner life that we associate with intelligent animals. The phrase “a memory like a goldfish” entered common usage as shorthand for the most basic, unreflective kind of cognition imaginable. The manta ray has been…
It Lives in Snow, Soaks in Hot Springs, and Has Been Changing Its Own Behaviour for Generations. Meet Japan's Snow Monkey.
In the mountains of Nagano Prefecture, in central Japan, there is a valley where the winters are long and brutal — temperatures dropping to minus 15 degrees Celsius, snow lying metres deep, the landscape locked in a cold that would be lethal to most primates. And yet, every winter, a troop of Japanese macaques descends to the valley’s volcanic hot springs, wades into the steaming water, and sits…
Meet the Primate That Ruled an Island for 60 Million Years — Before Humans Arrived 2,000 Years Ago
Approximately 60 million years ago, a small group of primates — probably resembling modern bushbabies or lorises — arrived on the island of Madagascar. How they got there is still debated: the most widely accepted hypothesis is that they rafted across the Mozambique Channel on floating vegetation, carried by ancient ocean currents from the African mainland to the island that lay approximately 400…
Scientists Just Discovered That Blue Whales Sing in Dialects — and Each Ocean Has Its Own Song
In the 1960s, two American researchers named Roger Payne and Scott McVay made a discovery that changed the way humanity thought about the ocean. Analysing recordings made by the US Navy’s underwater hydrophone network — a system designed to detect Soviet submarines — they found something unexpected in the data: the ocean was full of song. Humpback whales, they discovered, produced complex,…
This Bird Flies for 5 Years Without Landing. What Happens When It Finally Comes Home Is Heartbreaking.
Somewhere over the Southern Ocean, in the vast grey expanse between Antarctica and the southern tips of the inhabited continents, a young wandering albatross is flying. It has been flying, more or less continuously, for three years. It will continue flying for another two. It has not touched land since the day it launched itself from its nest on South Georgia Island and caught the first updraft…
People Travel Thousands of Miles Just to See This Bird Blink. Here's Why It's Worth Every Mile.
Every year, birdwatchers fly from Europe, North America, Japan, and Australia to the papyrus swamps of Uganda, Rwanda, and South Sudan. They hire boats, wade through knee-deep water, and spend hours — sometimes days — searching the dense reed beds of lakes Victoria, Albert, and the Bangweulu wetlands of Zambia. They are not looking for a flock of rare migrants or a colony of colourful…
The Amazon's Most Acrobatic Primate Is Disappearing — and Its Slow Reproduction Makes Recovery Almost Impossible
High in the Amazon rainforest canopy — 30, 40, sometimes 50 metres above the forest floor — a black spider monkey is moving through the trees with a speed and fluency that makes watching it feel like watching something impossible. It swings from branch to branch using its arms, its legs, and its tail interchangeably, covering distances of several metres in a single movement, changing direction…
Why the World's Most Powerful Eagle Cannot Save Itself — No Matter How Hard It Tries
In the rainforests of Central and South America, there is a bird that makes experienced ornithologists go quiet when they see it for the first time. It is not the largest bird in the world — the Andean condor has a greater wingspan. It is not the fastest — the peregrine falcon dives at over 300 kilometres per hour. But the harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja) is, by almost any measure, the most…
Nature Painted This Monkey in Red, Blue and Gold. The Reason Is More Fascinating Than You'd Expect.
In the rainforests of central Africa — in Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and the Republic of Congo — there lives a primate that looks like it was designed by an artist who had never heard the word “subtle.” The mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is the world’s largest monkey — a powerfully built animal that can weigh up to 54 kilograms in dominant males. But it is not its size that stops people…
There Are Fewer Than 650 of These Ancient Crocodilians Left. Most People Have Never Heard of Them.
If you showed most people a photograph of a gharial, they would not recognise it. They might guess it was some kind of crocodile — the long, armoured body and the four stubby legs are familiar enough. But the head would stop them. It is unlike anything they had seen before: impossibly long and narrow, like a pair of scissors, lined with more than 100 interlocking teeth, and tipped — in adult…
The World's Longest Venomous Snake Does Something No Other Snake on Earth Does — and It Will Surprise You
There is a moment, known to herpetologists who have worked with king cobras in the field, that never loses its power to unsettle even the most experienced researcher. You are walking through the forest, and you hear it — a low, resonant growl, like a distant rumble of thunder, coming from somewhere near the ground. You stop. You look. And there, coiled in the leaf litter or draped across a fallen…
Scientists Spent 100 Years Getting the Komodo Dragon Wrong. Here's What They Finally Discovered.
In 1910, a Dutch colonial officer named Lieutenant van Steyn van Hensbroek heard rumours from pearl fishermen about a giant “land crocodile” living on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies. He organised an expedition to the island of Komodo, shot two of the animals, and sent the skins and photographs to the director of the Zoological Museum in Bogor. The director, Peter Ouwens, described the…
100 Elephants Are Killed Every Day for Their Ivory. Here's Who Is Buying It — and Why It's Still Happening.
In 2012, at the height of the worst poaching crisis in decades, an estimated 35,000 African elephants were killed for their ivory. That is approximately 96 elephants every day. Four every hour. One every fifteen minutes — around the clock, every day of the year. The ivory from those elephants — carved into ornaments, jewellery, chopsticks, and religious figurines — flowed primarily to China,…
The World's Tallest Animal Is Disappearing in Silence — and Almost Nobody Has Noticed
In 1985, there were approximately 155,000 giraffes in Africa. Today there are fewer than 68,000. In thirty years, the world’s tallest animal has lost more than half its population — a decline so steep, so sustained, and so consequential that the IUCN upgraded the giraffe’s conservation status to Vulnerable in 2016. You probably didn’t hear about it. That is the central tragedy of the giraffe’s…
There Are Only 2 Northern White Rhinos Left on Earth. Both Are Female. Here's What Happens Next.
On the 19th of March 2018, a 45-year-old male northern white rhinoceros named Sudan died at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya. He had been ill for months, suffering from age-related complications and degenerative muscle and bone conditions. When his condition became untreatable, the decision was made to euthanise him. Sudan was the last male northern white rhinoceros on Earth. He left behind…