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The rare and endangered snow leopard roams his vastly diminished range at the Bronx zoo.

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There are more historically important Inca ruins than Machu Picchu, but none captures the eye and the...

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Wooly monkeys travel with great agility through the tree tops as they forages for leaves, fruits and...

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Leaving Iquitos, we travel on board the Turmalina, a sturdy wooden riverboat with a Viking-like prow...

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This baby Amazon tree boa uses its protective coloration to elude predators and to capture small...

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A one-room schoolhouse on stilts in a remote backwater village has a faculty of one. Nutritious rice...

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The rice paper butterfly is sometimes called the tree nymph butterfly, or wood nymph, or the paper kite...

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A Greater Potoo dozes in an elongated, cryptic pose at dusk. These owl-like birds feed at night on...

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Few fish inspire such fear and awe as the piranha. Theodore Roosevelt wrote of the piranha “the head...

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Riberenos make a modest living without much money by tending small gardens or plantations. Because the...

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It is a widespread myth that rainforests produce a large proportion of the earth’s oxygen, that they...

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This family drifts along on a steady 3 mph current on a home-made raft that has been outfitted with...

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Uploaded on Feb 17, 2007

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