The national animal of Panama, this brightly colored frog may be extinct in the wild. It declined by 80 percent between 2000 and 2010, primarily due to the disease chytridiomycosis, spreading through Panama from west to east. Active by day,...
Evidence of our intimate relationship with other animals bombards us during everyday conversation. We say that so-and-so is a busy bee, an eager beaver, a cunning serpent, or a greedy pig. One can be mean as a rattlesnake, happy as a clam, ...