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A lion prowls through a flock of pelicans

Prowling for Pelicans

In Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, wildlife is making a comeback.

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Horseflies bite the fleshy tissue surrounding the ye of a black caiman.
An Eye for a Fly

The black caiman is one of the Amazon’s fiercest predators, but against this tiny nuisance it’s defenseless.

Toothy Transport

South America’s broad-snouted caiman is a fierce mother—and has been fiercely mothered back into abundance.

Hatchling gharials from multiple females congregate near the dominant male—likely their father—on the territory where they hatched.
Basking on the Brink

An "unholy" river in India may be the last, best hope for one of the world's largest and most imperiled crocodilians.

By Foot into Peru’s Lost World

A team of herpetologists treks into one of South America’s most pristine and poorly understood mountain ranges and discovers animals found nowhere else on Earth.