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Mauritius has an unusual naval ensign of several unequal red, white and blue stripes. In the middle white panel is set a red anchor with a green cable and a five-pointed white star outlined in yellow on top. The anchor has two bars on the lower right side Full Review »
Manatee, common name for each of three species of a large water mammal, popularly called a sea cow because it grazes on marine grasses and other water plants. The Amazonian manatee ranges throughout the Amazon River basin in South America; the West Africa Full Review »
New world monkeys like the spider monkey are more primitive than old world monkeys. Their brains are less complex, their thumbs are not opposable and their nostrils are further apart. They have slender bodies and limbs with long narrow hands. The black-ha Full Review »
The Prosimians, found chiefly in Madagascar, are listed on this page. The Platyrrhini are the New World monkeys. Cercopithecoidea are Old World monkeys, Hominoidea include the Gibbons, Lesser and Great Apes. A few extinct forms are asterisked. Full Review »
The order Primates consists of two major suborders: the Prosimii and the Anthropoidea . The Prosimii, or prosimians , were the first of the suborders to evolve. Subsequently, they are often called the "lower primates." The word prosimian lit Full Review »
The discovery of the Komodo Dragons (Varanus komodoensis) is one of the cryptozoological surprises of the 20th century. Before 1912 the species was completely unknown and large lizards were thought to be extinct. Then, in that year, a party of pearl fishe Full Review »
As the monitors spread across the Earth experiencing different habitats and climates they diversified. Over many millions of years this process has resulted in the emergence of at least seventy or eighty (probably many thousands of) species. Some of them Full Review »
Sumatran orangutans are critically endangered. Habitat loss and poaching are pushing them towards imminent extinction. Please help us to help them. Full Review »
Rusti is a temporary visitor at the Honolulu Zoo. After a complicated rescue from a substandard private facility on the mainland, he was given to Orangutan Foundation International (OFI). OFI was founded by Dr. Birute Galdikas, the pioneering primatologi Full Review »
The Egyptian tortoise (Testudo Kelinmanni) is a small, desert-living tortoise found in Egypt, Israel and Libya. Desert tortoises have delayed maturity (14-20 years) and long life spans. Their reproduction /generation cycle is 25 years, with individuals ha Full Review »
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