Wild Animals
10 Wild Facts About the European Wildcat
It looks like a chunky tabby, but this Ice Age survivor avoids people, growls instead of meows, and faces genetic extinction through…
Wild Animals
Wild cats, wild dogs and the strange survivors of the animal world.
Wild Animals
The Secret Life of the Red Fox: What Nobody Tells You
A predator that may aim its pounces using Earth's magnetic field, raises cubs with helpers, and speaks with 20+ calls. Inside the…
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Serval Cat Explained: The Medium-Sized Cat With Super Skills
The longest legs of any cat for its size, radar-dish ears, a 3-meter leap, and a hunting success rate that beats lions.
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The Caracal: Everything That Makes This Wild Cat Different
A wild cat the size of a medium dog that can jump about 10 feet straight up and swat birds out of…
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The Clouded Leopard’s Biggest Threat Is Its Own Kind
A cat the size of a medium dog with fangs as long as a tiger's, ankles that let it run headfirst down…
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Pangolins: The Only Mammal Covered in Scales
No teeth, no speed, and lions still walk away hungry. How the pangolin's armor, 28-inch tongue and stone-filled stomach work, and why…
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World’s Smallest Monkey: Pygmy vs Common Marmoset
Twins that share cells, dads that do the carrying, calls that work like names. How the two best-known marmosets compare, and why…
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Arctic Wolves Do Something No Other Wolf Does
A 700-year-old den, paws that warm themselves on ice, a 163-mile trip in total darkness, and wolves that don't run from people.…
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Martens: The Small Predator That Broke a Particle Accelerator
A stone marten shut down the Large Hadron Collider. Meet the genus behind car-cable attacks, a Russian fur empire, and the comeback…
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Maned Wolf: The Tallest Wild Dog on Earth
Not a wolf, not a fox. A stilt-legged Brazilian canid that eats wolf apples, plants seeds with leafcutter ants, and whose urine…
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Margay: The Wild Cat That Fools Monkeys
In 2005, researchers in the Amazon watched a small spotted cat imitate a baby tamarin's cry to lure monkeys. Meet the margay,…
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The Two Worlds of the Sea Lion: From Land to Deep Water
The barking, lounging sea lion is also an elite deep-water hunter. Why they haul out, how mothers find pups, and the physiology…
