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The snake Chrysopelea paradisi is seen in Malaysia's Taman Negara National Park. To get from tree to tree, they can propel themselves in the air. David Renoult/iNaturalist hide caption
Liu Ping, a breeder of bamboo rats. He had to cull his rats when the Chinese government banned consumption of various wild animals as a way to potentially curb spread of viruses from animals to humans. Liu Ping hide caption
Denise Herzing, dolphin researcher, at TED2013. James Duncan Davidson/TED hide caption
Minks at a mink farm. Yuri Tutov /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
New research shows that dolphins can learn foraging behavior from other dolphins. Sonja Wild/Dolphin Innovation Project hide caption
The closer humans are to animals, the greater the opportunity for zoonotic spillover, where a pathogen jumps from animal to human. Zoë van Dijk for NPR hide caption
Osprey looking for alewives along the Sebasticook River in Maine. The removal of two dams has allowed migratory fish to return. Murray Carpenter hide caption
'One Of The Best Nature Shows': A River Transformed After Dams Come Down
An artist's interpretation of a baby mosasaur hatching from an egg in the Antarctic sea. Francisco Hueichaleo hide caption
Scientists Find The Biggest Soft-Shelled Egg Ever, Nicknamed 'The Thing'
A swarm of desert locusts flies above trees in a Kenyan village. Hundreds of millions of the insects have arrived in Kenya, where they're destroying farmland. Ben Curtis/AP hide caption
Sea otters are tourist magnets--and voracious eaters. Not everyone is happy about their comeback off the coast of British Columbia. Ted S. Warren/AP hide caption
In parts of Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina, cicadas will climb out of the ground for their once-in-17-year mating cycle. Scientists have dubbed this grouping brood IX. Stephen Jaffe/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Dally family doesn't consider Frisky a demanding house guest. Sarah Stacke for NPR hide caption
Penguins were allowed to waddle through the galleries of Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Both the museum and the Kansas City Zoo — home to the penguins — have been closed because of the pandemic. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. hide caption
With meatpacking plants reducing processing capacity nationwide, U.S. hog farmers are bracing or an unprecedented crisis: the need to euthanize millions of pigs. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
Millions Of Pigs Will Be Euthanized As Pandemic Cripples Meatpacking Plants
Should I Adopt A Dog During The Coronavirus Crisis? Read This First
A Piping Plover glares at Jones Beach, Long Island, N.Y. A couple of these endangered birds have reappeared in Chicago. Vicki Jauron, Babylon and Beyond/Getty Images hide caption
Vespa mandarinia, or the 'murder hornet', was first spotted in North America in 2019. Alastair Macewen/Getty Images hide caption
Does that chiffchaff sound chirpier to you? Ornithologists say the homebound are just noticing the sounds of birds more. Mathias Schaef/McPhoto/ullstein bild via Getty Images hide caption
Do Those Birds Sound Louder To You? An Ornithologist Says You're Just Hearing Things
Sweet Farm animal sanctuary in Half Moon Bay, Calif., is offering Goat 2 Meeting: a virtual visit to meet the farm's animals. Pictured is Juno the goat. InkPoetry/Courtesy of Sweet Farm hide caption
A page on Swallows from David Allen Sibley's What It's Like To Be A Bird. David Allen Sibley/Knopf hide caption
A Humboldt squid shows its colors in the lights of a remotely operated vehicle off the coast of California. MBARI hide caption