Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the ...

The plant gives it a greenish tint that is useful camouflage in the trees of its Central and South American rain forest home ... If caught on land, these animals have no chance to evade predators ...

Ecuador’s high court ultimately ruled that wild animals have rights that are protected under the country’s constitution. The monkeys, which inhabit numerous protected park and forest areas ...

The slug is native to the dense, moist forest floors of the Pacific Northwest ... organic matter), including fallen leaves and plants, animal feces, moss, and mushroom spores, and then recycle ...

Because of its geographic ... animals, but average about 17. Both sexes live in troops, but a dominant female presides over all. Ring-tailed lemurs are threatened, largely because the sparse, dry ...

This story appears in the August 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine ... one of the largest coastal temperate rain forests in the world. The bear pauses on a patch of rockweed algae ...

This year a team sponsored by National Geographic magazine ... As in much of West Africa, bush meat, from wild animals in the forest, particularly from monkeys, is prized as a delicacy, even ...

The animals are ace jumpers, using powerful legs and extremely long tails to spring great distances. This allows the primates to move quickly through the forest canopy or snatch flying insects out ...

This story appears in the November 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Animal migration is a phenomenon ... They don't like dense forest either, so they traverse these high, open shoulders ...

This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic ... shielding the forest from fires—both natural and those set by humans. "Bemaraha has unusual animal and plant populations ...

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. After videos of slow lorises being tickled and fed rice balls in captivity swept the Internet, the wide-eyed animals ...