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The Beautiful and Mysterious Clouded Leopard

25 September, 2020
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There are but a few people who can actually say they have seen a clouded leopard in its natural habitat. They are as secretive and elusive as they are beautiful. These cats are a separate genus of cat that are most closely related to snow leopards. Equipped with

The Brown Hawk Owl

24 September, 2020
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The brown hawk-owl, aka Oriental hawk owl or the brown boobook, is found in southeast Asia; primarily in India east to southern China and Indonesia. They are also considered a vagrant species on the Palau islands. There have also

The Indian Rhinoceros

23 September, 2020
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The Indian rhinoceros, aka the greater one-horned rhinoceros, resides in northern India and Nepal. It is the second largest rhino, after Africa’s white rhino. This Asian species of rhino has but one black horn, unlike the African rhinos who possess 2 horns. They prefer swamps, floodplain grasslands, and forests. Due […]

The Deadly Blue Malayan Coral Snake

22 September, 2020
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Not all venomous snakes are created equally. Take the blue Malayan coral snake, for instance. These snakes are as deadly as they are beautiful. They live in the primary and secondary forests, in lowland and lower montane

The Spectacular Asian Elephant

17 September, 2020
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Being the second largest land animal on the planet, next to the African elephant, the Asian elephant is an intelligent giant found in Southeast Asia. These elephants prefer moist tropical rainforests, mountainous forests, dry, semi-deciduous

The Invasive Lionfish

16 September, 2020
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The lionfish, aka firefish, zebrafish, turkeyfish, scorpionfish, and butterfly-cod is a venomous fish typically found in the Pacific and Indo-Pacific oceans. There are 10 known species of lionfish. In North America, they are considered

The Velvet Worm

15 September, 2020
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Changing very little in the last 500 million years, the velvet worm is a peculiar predator with 180 known species described to date. These odd creatures spend their time in the tropics, in Australia and in

The Charismatic Rhesus Macaque Monkey

14 September, 2020
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The rhesus macaque monkey is an old world monkey. This means it doesn’t rely, in part, on a prehensile tail and is from African or Asian decent. Rhesus macaques are native to Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burma, southern

The Beautiful and Elusive Snow Leopard

11 September, 2020
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The snow leopard calls the high, rugged, and frigid mountains of central and south Asia their home. Once thought to have a few subspecies research has, for now, listed these beautiful cats as a monotypic species (a group that

The Deadly Indian Red Scorpion

10 September, 2020
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The Indian red scorpion, aka eastern Indian scorpion, is thought by many to be the world’s deadliest known scorpion. Their fatality rate is, by far, the highest of any other known scorpion species. However, these arachnids aren’t out

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