Asia & The Pacific
Traveler Story: China Panda Adventure
“Pandas have been my passion since I first saw them at the Toledo Zoo at the age of 10, so this was my idea of the trip of a lifetime and it didn’t disappoint!
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Nature Photography
Traveler Story: Madagascar Wildlife Encounters
There’s something just so amazing about walking to the door of your hotel room and having your concentration completely broken because there’s a troop of Coquerel’s sifaka less than 2 feet from you! The better part was that they seemed to pay absolutely no mind of my presence. Lemurs are addictive. Especially that close!
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Red Fox Sitting in Snow
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a fox in Canada. Photographer Robbie Gallant was photographing Prince Edward Island when he came across this curious red fox who had just woken from his nap.
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Canada & the North
Traveler Story: Beluga Whales in Churchill, Canada
By Nat Hab Traveler Kay Ellen Gilmour, MD | Beluga Whales & Arctic Wildlife of Churchill Lois and I had a marvelous time on this trip.
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Nature & Wildlife
The Skeleton Coast, Namibia
Few tourists have ever ventured here. It is a place famous for whale bones, lions, fur seals, and ship wrecks. The Skeleton Coast is unusually beautiful and getting there is the adventure of a lifetime. Namibia is one of the least populated countries in the world and is home to the world’s oldest desert.
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Asia & The Pacific
Videos: The Sun Bear, “He Who Likes to Sit High”
It’s ironic that an animal whose name includes the word sun would be a creature of the night. But once darkness descends, the Malayan sun bear (Helarctos malayanus)—the smallest member of the bear family—lumbers through the dense, lowland forests of Southeast Asia, snacking on berries, birds, fruits, insects, lizards, rodents and roots.
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Travel Tales
Lenin’s Kittiwake | Olaf’s Corner
A black-footed kittiwake swooped in from the Arctic Ocean and landed on the bald head of Lenin, the Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.
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Antarctica & Arctic
East of the Sun and West of the Moon: The Folklore of Arctic Animals
In the far North, the aurora borealis shimmers and blazes, in bright contrast with a frozen, white world below. But life can be found in the most polar of regions, and human encounters with these breathtaking Arctic animals have inspired folktales around the globe.
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Nature Photography
Wildlife Photo of the Week: Howling
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a howling wolf.
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U.S. National Parks
Video: Yellowstone Bear Bathtub
It seems that the snow monkeys of Japan aren’t the only animals that seek out baths. In 2016, National Geographic set up some camera traps at the “bear bathtub,” a natural swimming hole in Yellowstone National Park that happens to be a popular place for wildlife.
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Nature & Wildlife
Eastern Cougars Declared Extinct. Will It Help Reintroduction Efforts?
Eastern cougars (Puma concolor couguar) were officially declared extinct last week, on January 22, 2018. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has now removed them from the Endangered Species list, where they had been placed in 1973.
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Travel Tales
Traveler Story: Glacier National Park Adventure
“We had guides who would make everything ‘come alive’ for us as we gazed upon it, whether it be plants or animals or lakes or waterfalls or stunning sunsets or mountains with Native American stories regarding their names—so that the appreciation we had for nature, and especially for the Native American presence in what…