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 ...

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 ...

Tree kangaroos are found only in the rain forests of Australia ... believe that Matschie's tree kangaroos are fairly solitary animals. Females and males have non-overlapping home ranges, but ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... in a shallow puddle created by animal tracks. We turn down a slope into a forest studded with bizarre-looking ...

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 ...

Another day in the same forest, Kirsten and I ... “humane” by American Humane, an animal welfare nonprofit. (The Walt Disney Company, National Geographic’s majority owner, offers dolphin ...