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A young pileated gibbon spends its earliest months holding tightly to its mother, travelling with her as she moves effor...
04/09/2026

A young pileated gibbon spends its earliest months holding tightly to its mother, travelling with her as she moves effortlessly through the trees.

📓 FIELD NOTES

🐾 Species: Pileated gibbon

🌍 Native Range: Cambodia, Thailand and Laos

🌴 Habitat: Tropical evergreen and seasonal forests

🥗 Diet: Primarily fruit, supplemented with leaves, flowers and insects

🦾 Adaptation: Their exceptionally long arms are perfectly suited to brachiation, allowing them to swing rapidly between branches while spending much of their lives high above the forest floor.

⚠️ Conservation Status: Endangered

🚫 Threats: Habitat loss, hunting and the illegal wildlife trade

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🌍 Conservation Photo: Pileated gibbons have disappeared from parts of their historic range, with habitat destruction and hunting continuing to threaten remaining populations. Carefully managed zoo populations help maintain a genetically healthy population while supporting wider conservation awareness for the species.

Resting against the warmth and protection of an adult, young chimpanzees form powerful family bonds that shape their dev...
28/08/2026

Resting against the warmth and protection of an adult, young chimpanzees form powerful family bonds that shape their development within the complex social communities of the forests of equatorial Africa.

📓 FIELD NOTES

🐾 Species: Chimpanzee

🌍 Native Range: Equatorial Africa, from West Africa through Central Africa to western Uganda and Tanzania

🌴 Habitat: Tropical rainforests, woodland, forest-savannah mosaics and montane forests

🥗 Diet: Primarily fruit, alongside leaves, seeds, insects, eggs and occasionally meat

🦾 Adaptation: Highly developed intelligence allows chimpanzees to use tools, solve problems, learn from one another and pass behaviours between generations.

⚠️ Conservation Status: Endangered

🚫 Threats: Habitat loss and fragmentation, hunting and the illegal wildlife trade, alongside vulnerability to infectious disease

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🌍 Conservation Photo: Photographed in a managed zoological collection that supports wildlife conservation, education and species protection.

After dark in Madagascar’s forests, red-bellied lemurs move through the trees in close-knit family groups, using their l...
25/08/2026

After dark in Madagascar’s forests, red-bellied lemurs move through the trees in close-knit family groups, using their large, light-sensitive eyes to navigate the canopy as daylight begins to fade.

📓 FIELD NOTES

🐾 Species: Red-bellied Lemur

🌍 Native Range: Eastern Madagascar

🌴 Habitat: Tropical rainforests, particularly humid lowland and montane forests

🥗 Diet: Primarily fruit, supplemented with leaves, flowers, nectar and occasionally invertebrates

🦾 Adaptation: Large eyes provide excellent vision in the dim light beneath the forest canopy, helping these cathemeral primates remain active during both daylight and darkness.

⚠️ Conservation Status: Vulnerable

🚫 Threats: Deforestation, habitat fragmentation, slash-and-burn agriculture and hunting

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🌍 Conservation Photo: Photographed in a managed zoological collection that supports wildlife conservation, education and species protection.

Scurrying across the forest floor of southern Mexico, Central American agoutis play an important role as accidental gard...
20/08/2026

Scurrying across the forest floor of southern Mexico, Central American agoutis play an important role as accidental gardeners, burying seeds for later and leaving some forgotten to germinate into new trees.

📓 FIELD NOTES

🐾 Species: Central American Agouti

🌍 Native Range: Southern Mexico through Central America to northern South America

🌴 Habitat: Tropical rainforests, secondary forests, plantations and wooded areas

🥗 Diet: Fruit, seeds, nuts and other plant material

🦾 Adaptation: Powerful jaws allow agoutis to crack into hard nuts and seeds, while their habit of burying food in scattered caches helps disperse seeds throughout the forest.

⚠️ Conservation Status: Least Concern

🚫 Threats: Habitat loss, forest fragmentation and hunting

📍 Photo Location: Mexico

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🌍 Wildlife Photo: Photographed living wild in Mexico within the species' natural range.

Family life begins underground in the deserts of North Africa, where fennec fox fathers help provide food for the mother...
18/08/2026

Family life begins underground in the deserts of North Africa, where fennec fox fathers help provide food for the mother and growing kits while the youngsters remain safely around the den during their first weeks of life.

📓 FIELD NOTES

🐾 Species: Fennec Fox

🌍 Native Range: North Africa, particularly across the Sahara Desert and Sinai Peninsula

🌴 Habitat: Arid deserts and semi-desert regions with sandy dunes and sparse vegetation

🥗 Diet: Insects, small rodents, reptiles, birds, eggs, roots and fruit

🦾 Adaptation: Their enormous ears provide exceptionally sensitive hearing for detecting prey beneath the sand while also helping dissipate excess body heat.

⚠️ Conservation Status: Least Concern

🚫 Threats: Habitat disturbance, trapping and capture for the illegal pet trade

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🌍 Conservation Photo: Photographed in a managed zoological collection that supports wildlife conservation, education and species protection.

Standing tall above the grasslands and dry plains of southern Africa gives meerkats a valuable advantage, allowing these...
17/08/2026

Standing tall above the grasslands and dry plains of southern Africa gives meerkats a valuable advantage, allowing these highly social animals to scan the horizon for predators while the rest of their group forages nearby.

📓 FIELD NOTES

🐾 Species: Meerkat

🌍 Native Range: Southern Africa, including Botswana, Namibia and South Africa

🌴 Habitat: Arid grasslands, scrubland, savannah and semi-desert

🥗 Diet: Insects, spiders, scorpions, small reptiles, eggs and plant material

🦾 Adaptation: Dark patches around their eyes help reduce glare from the intense sun, improving their vision while keeping watch for predators across open landscapes.

⚠️ Conservation Status: Least Concern

🚫 Threats: Drought, habitat degradation, disease and predation

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🌍 Conservation Photo: Photographed in a managed zoological collection that supports wildlife conservation, education and species protection.

Built for explosive acceleration rather than endurance, cheetahs rely on extraordinary speed and split-second changes of...
15/08/2026

Built for explosive acceleration rather than endurance, cheetahs rely on extraordinary speed and split-second changes of direction to pursue prey across the open grasslands and savannahs of Africa.

📓 FIELD NOTES

🐾 Species: Cheetah

🌍 Native Range: Primarily eastern and southern Africa, with a small remaining population in Iran

🌴 Habitat: Open grasslands, savannahs, dry forests and lightly wooded plains

🥗 Diet: Mainly small to medium-sized antelope, alongside hares and ground-dwelling birds

🦾 Adaptation: A flexible spine, long limbs, enlarged nasal passages and semi-retractable claws work together to provide exceptional acceleration, stride length and grip during high-speed pursuits.

⚠️ Conservation Status: Vulnerable

🚫 Threats: Habitat loss and fragmentation, human-wildlife conflict, declining prey populations and illegal wildlife trade

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🌍 Conservation Photo: Photographed in a managed zoological collection that supports wildlife conservation, education and species protection.

Born into the harsh deserts of North Africa, fennec fox kits spend their earliest weeks sheltered inside underground den...
14/08/2026

Born into the harsh deserts of North Africa, fennec fox kits spend their earliest weeks sheltered inside underground dens before beginning to explore the sandy world outside under the watch of their parents.

📓 FIELD NOTES

🐾 Species: Fennec Fox

🌍 Native Range: North Africa, particularly across the Sahara Desert and Sinai Peninsula

🌴 Habitat: Arid deserts and semi-desert regions with sandy dunes and sparse vegetation

🥗 Diet: Insects, small rodents, reptiles, birds, eggs, roots and fruit

🦾 Adaptation: Their oversized ears provide exceptionally sensitive hearing for locating prey beneath the sand and help dissipate heat in the extreme desert climate.

⚠️ Conservation Status: Least Concern

🚫 Threats: Habitat disturbance, trapping and capture for the illegal pet trade

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🌍 Conservation Photo: Photographed in a managed zoological collection that supports wildlife conservation, education and species protection.

For Philippine spotted deer, life in zoos is part of a much bigger conservation story: carefully managed breeding popula...
09/08/2026

For Philippine spotted deer, life in zoos is part of a much bigger conservation story: carefully managed breeding populations in Europe provide a genetic safeguard and can support breeding programmes back in the Philippines, where conservation-bred deer have already been returned to protected forests.

📓 FIELD NOTES

🐾 Species: Philippine Spotted Deer

🌍 Native Range: Negros and Panay in the Philippines

🌴 Habitat: Tropical forest, secondary forest and dense grassland

🥗 Diet: Grasses, leaves, shoots and buds

🦾 Adaptation: Their compact build and relatively short legs help them move through dense forest vegetation, while their spotted coat provides camouflage amongst broken light and foliage.

⚠️ Conservation Status: Endangered

🚫 Threats: Deforestation, agricultural expansion, habitat fragmentation and hunting

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🌍 Conservation Photo: Photographed in a managed zoological collection that supports wildlife conservation, education and species protection.

Dappled sunlight filtering through dense rainforest leaves plays to the jaguar’s greatest advantage, breaking up its ros...
08/08/2026

Dappled sunlight filtering through dense rainforest leaves plays to the jaguar’s greatest advantage, breaking up its rosetted coat as it moves through the tropical forests of Mexico, Central America and South America.

📓 FIELD NOTES

🐾 Species: Jaguar

🌍 Native Range: Mexico through Central America and across much of South America

🌴 Habitat: Tropical rainforests, wetlands, dry forests, grasslands and scrub

🥗 Diet: Deer, peccaries, capybaras, caimans, turtles, fish and other vertebrates

🦾 Adaptation: Powerful jaws and an exceptionally strong bite allow jaguars to kill prey with a direct bite through the skull or pierce the tough shells of reptiles.

⚠️ Conservation Status: Near Threatened

🚫 Threats: Habitat loss and fragmentation, human-wildlife conflict, declining prey populations and illegal hunting

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🌍 Conservation Photo: Photographed in a managed zoological collection that supports wildlife conservation, education and species protection.

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