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Cockatoos That Drum for the Love of Music
For many of us, music is so much more than just mere entertainment. We use it to wake ourselves up, to make our morning commute go quicker, to motivate us, to alleviate our worries
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Be a Wildlife Naturalist During August’s Solar Eclipse
On Monday, August 21, 2017—for the first time in nearly a century—a total solar eclipse will cross the United States from coast to coast. A solar eclipse happens when a new moon moves between
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: The Thinker
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected the 2016 Wildlife Photo Contest Experts’ Choice Winner. Photographer Cheryl Ramalho captured this chimpanzee’s
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Uganda Travel Tale: A Safari Full of Smiles (Even from a Gorilla!)
By Sarah Raby, Africa Adventure Director and Group Specialist, who just returned from Nat Hab’s Great Uganda Gorilla Safari. Read on to find out how Uganda surprised her in the best possible way! All photos by
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Video of the Week: Spend One Amazing Minute in The Congo Basin
The Congo Basin is a priority place for WWF. It’s the 2nd largest rain forest in the world after the Amazon, and the special part, other than the sheer remoteness and absolute wilderness filled
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Seven Animals to See in Uganda and Rwanda Besides Gorillas
There’s no question: Seeing mountain gorillas in the forests of Uganda and Rwanda is, for many wildlife enthusiasts, the apex of their globetrotting adventures. But that’s not the whole story for the two African nations; they’re also home
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Video: The Top 25 Most Intelligent Nonhuman Animals
I’m always a little wary of smart animal lists for two reasons. The first is that I know without a doubt that my greyhound, Chic, is the smartest dog in the world, yet greyhounds
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Could Grizzly Bears Hold the Secret to a Cure for Human Obesity?
When UCLA Medical Center cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was asked one day to perform echocardiography on the failing heart of a Los Angeles Zoo emperor tamarin, a small monkey that evolved in the treetops of
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