News & More
The Jeremiah Johnson Complex: Are Introverts Drawn to the Mountains?
A new study finds that introverts tend to live in mountainous areas and extroverts gravitate to flat regions. Are we genetically predisposed to landscape types?
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Galapagos Islands
Watch Juvenile Giant Tortoises (Sort of) Frolic on Tortoise Center's Webcams
Have ever wondered what a bunch of captive juvenile Galapagos giant tortoises get up to when they think no one is watching? No? Well, now’s your chance.
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African Safaris
Watch This Injured Buffalo Face Down a Pride of Hungry Lions
Few African species are much of a match for a pride of hungry lions. The African Buffalo (also known as the Cape Buffalo) is one notable exception, as the video and images below dramatically demonstrate.
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Conservation
New Hope for Monarch Butterfly Populations
Habitat for the monarch butterfly has rebounded 69 percent from last year’s dismally low levels, according to the Associated Press and the World Wildlife Fund. Last year was the lowest year on record for the species – a poor sign of the species’ condition.
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Nature & Wildlife
Happy International Polar Bear Day–Enjoy Our Top Polar Bear Photos!
It’s finally here–one of our favorite holidays of the year–International Polar Bear Day! To celebrate this year, we thought we’d share some of our favorite polar bear photos from our new Wildlife Photo of the Day website. Most of them were taken during our Churchill polar bear tours!
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Travel Tales
Tales from the Tundra – Sometimes the Best Wildlife Experiences are Heard and Not Seen
In honor of Polar Bear Week and International Polar Bear Day, Nat Hab staffers are sharing their tales from the tundra of Churchill. Today, Kit Longnecker recalls a special memory from her recent polar bear trip that will stay with her forever.
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Travel Tales
Celebrate International Polar Bear Day with Nat Hab Tales from the Tundra
In honor of Polar Bear Week and International Polar Bear Day, Nat Hab staffers will be sharing tales from the tundra of Churchill. Today, Kendal Yoakum recounts a special moment between a mama polar bear and her cubs during her trip to Churchill this past fall.
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Galapagos Islands
A Giant Tortoise, a Selfie, and a Jail Cell
It’s no secret that social media can sometimes prompt people do foolish things. More and more, the prospect of instant notoriety, or even just a lot of Facebook likes, seems to be too strong a lure for many, especially young people, to resist as they engage in increasingly outlandish behavior. Take the case of Fazal Shaik.
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News & More
New Climate Study Advises Leaving Fossil Fuels in the Ground. But Will We?
At the most recent United Nations Climate Change Conference, held in Lima, Peru, in December 2014, more than 190 countries—including the United States—voluntarily agreed to limit carbon emissions in order to keep the world from warming another 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of this century.
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Travel Tales
Yuko in Action – An Antarctica Travel Tale | Olaf's Corner
I had a client called Yuko. Tough in action, sweet in demeanor. Big on doing, little on small talk. Those are my favorite kind of clients on expeditions.
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Conservation
Illegal Wildlife Trafficking: U.S. Doubles Down
Within the open expanse of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge just outside Denver, you’ll find an unseemly sight – a large government building surrounded by short-grass prairie and wetlands.
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Galapagos Islands
Photo of the Day: Galapagos Racer vs Marine Iguana
There are 19 endemic reptile species in the Galapagos Islands. While giant tortoises and the land and marine iguanas understandably get most of the attention, some of the archipelago’s lesser known reptile species are pretty interesting in their own right. For example, did you know that there are three species of snakes endemic to the islands?