As an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge in the late 1960s, anthropologist Dame Alison Richard spent a miserable summer in Panama trying to study monkeys. It rained constantly and poisonous ...

CHICAGO–All of Madagascar's living Carnivora (an order of mammals that includes dogs, cats, bears, hyenas and their relatives) descended from a single species that dispersed from Africa to Madagascar, ...

STRI copy 39088014662829 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. AFA copy 39088019013317 gift of Janet Stanley. From the Publisher: Two thousand years ago, the island of Madagascar ...

Giant 10-foot-tall elephant birds, with eggs eight times larger than an ostrich’s. Sloth lemurs bigger than a panda, weighing in at 350 pounds. A puma-like predator called the giant fosa. They sound ...

Today, Madagascar is home to a mosaic of different habitats--a lush rainforest in the east and a dry deciduous forest in the west, separated by largely open highlands. But the island off the southeast ...