Mammals
Warm-blooded vertebrates that nurse their young with milk and typically give birth to live offspring. All mammals have hair or fur at some stage of life and breathe air through lungs.
Meet the Aardvark: Africa’s One-of-a-Kind Night Digger
With rabbit ears, a pig-like snout, and a termite diet, this odd survivor is unlike any other mammal
The Emperor Tamarin: A Monkey with a Regal Moustache
Small in size but commanding in presence, this tamarin reshapes life high in the rainforest
Mountain Goats: Masters of the High Peaks
How sure-footed climbers survive cliffs, cold, and predators in North America’s alpine heights
Sun Bears: Smallest of All Bears
From tree nests to ten-inch tongues, a closer look at a hidden species
Slow Loris: The World’s Only Venomous Primate
The bite, the biology, and the surprising reasons they use it
Tiger Quoll: The Spotted-tailed Predator of Australia
A pouch-raised, nocturnal hunter
Fossa: Madagascar’s Largest Terrestrial Predator
How a mongoose relative rules the forest from canopy to ground
Busy Beavers: Inside the World of Master Builders
How dams and lodges reshape streams, create wetlands, and boost biodiversity
The Serious Side of Play in Young Mammals
How play shapes brain development, confidence, and social skills
A Stoat Invader on Chalky Island: One Predator, an Eight-Month Hunt
The effort to track down a single stoat threatening one of New Zealand’s predator-free sanctuaries
The Maned Wolf: Long-Legged Canid with a Roar-Bark
A tall, solitary hunter with a taste for fruit and a voice that carries across the plains of South America
Fishing Cat: Asia’s Feline Built for Aquatic Hunting
Uses paw-tapping tricks to lure fish within striking range
Meet the Fennec Fox: Desert Survivor with Enormous Ears
A tiny predator thriving in the extremes of the Sahara
White, Orange... and Why Not Green Tigers?
How prey perception, pigment science, and human decisions shaped the tiger’s colors
The Social Life of Orcas
From grandmother leadership to learned hunts, pods pass knowledge across generations
The Hyrax Looks Like a Rodent but Is Related to an Elephant
A guinea pig lookalike with goat-like behavior and surprising ancestry
These Male and Female Monkeys Look So Different
In white-faced sakis, only the males have the signature white face
This Bear Climbs Higher Than Any Other
Meet South America’s only native bear
Geoffroy’s Cat: A Ghost of South America
A small wildcat that climbs trees, swims rivers, and hunts alone
Proboscis Monkey: Borneo’s Big-Nosed Marvel
A leaf-eating primate with a complex stomach and a surprising gift for swimming
Ghost of the Amazon Rainforest: The Short-Eared Dog
A solitary rainforest canine rarely seen even by scientists
Rusty-Spotted Cat: World’s Smallest Wild Feline
A kitten-sized hunter hiding in the forests of South Asia
Leopards of Bera
The world’s highest leopard density lives among local villagers
The Golden Takin of China’s Qinling Mountains
This goat-antelope climbs through forests filled with bamboo
Pandas Shouldn’t Still Exist. But They Do.
Built like a carnivore. Eats only bamboo. Somehow, it works.
