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Parallels of the Pantanal and the Northern Great Plains

The Pantanal region of South America might seem, at first, to share few similarities with the Northern Great Plains (NGP) region of North America. Here in the...

Samantha Miller

What’s the Difference Between a Seal and Sea Lion?

Seals, walruses, sea lions and fur seals are all marine animals known as pinnipeds. Pinniped is a Latin-derived word that can be translated to mean...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Lion Teeth Tell Tales

Staggering natural wonders—such as Victoria Falls, considered to be the world’s biggest curtain of falling water (not because of a singular dimension, such as...

Natural Habitat Adventures

13 Fascinating Facts About Green Sea Turtles

Green sea turtles are classified as endangered, threatened by overharvesting of their eggs, hunting, ocean plastic pollution, getting caught in fishing nets,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Whale Sharks Best Kodiak Bears for World’s Largest Omnivore

Whale sharks are the biggest fish and shark in the world. Adults can weigh 41,000 pounds and average about 40 feet long, but they may grow as large as 65...

Cathy Brown

The Importance of Getting Along: Symbiosis in Nature

As the great naturalist Charles Darwin once said, “In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Explore Rain Forest and Ruins from the Amazon to Machu Picchu

The Amazon Basin contains the largest rain forest on Earth, covering 2.7 million square miles—that’s twice the size of India, roughly the area of the Lower 48...

Michelle Peters

Polar Bears in Greenland Find Way to Live With Less Sea Ice

Back in March of this year, we covered polar bears and their incredible adaptations for surviving in the harsh Arctic environment. We learned about a female...

Jon Jared

Go With the Glow: Bioluminescent Animals and Where to Find Them

Bioluminescence is a natural phenomenon that highlights the brilliance of the natural world—literally! Glowworms light up, fireflies flash and plankton...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Yellowstone Heats Up; Wolves Could Curb the Warming

Yellowstone National Park is famous for its beautiful but harsh winters. Blanketed in snow, it exudes an almost mythical aura—even in the season’s common...

Natural Habitat Adventures

8 Ways to Travel More Responsibly with Your Children

By Rachel Dodds, Director of Sustaining Tourism We as parents all know that there is a climate crisis and that we want to leave our planet in a better state...

Megan Brief

Baby Animals in the Wild: Growing Up in India, Nepal and Bhutan

Asian Elephant The Asian elephant is the largest terrestrial mammal on the continent. Its size can be attributed to the gestation period, which is the...

Michelle Peters

5 Places to Spot Leopards in the Wild

The quintessential “big cat,” the leopard is the most generalized of the Pantherines. The four others—lion, tiger, jaguar and snow leopard—are more...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Nature Rx: Better Nutrition, Longer Life and Happier Days

Doctors in Scotland made headlines a few years ago when they began “prescribing nature” for their patients with a range of afflictions. That new practice was...

Laura Kiniry

The Importance of the North American Grasslands Conservation Act for Native Lands and Bison

It was August 1804 when the Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the eastern edge of the Great Plains. What lay before them was a broad expanse of North...

Megan Brief

Celebrate World Rhino Day Alongside Nat Hab Conservation Hero Richard de Gouveia

Learn How Richard Saves Species as a Sony Ambassador and Guide for Natural Habitat Adventures & WWF On September 22, conservation scientists and animal...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Penguins and Their Original Homelands

Part of the reason that I’m so enthralled with Antarctica is because it’s one of the rare places on Earth that has never had an Indigenous population; in...

Jon Jared

Where the Wild Things Roam: The Great Migration and Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater

Big adventures abound in Tanzania. The largest country in East Africa, its borders encompass Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa; Lake Victoria,...