Animals
Wild Things: Life as We Know It
Rediscovery of a Laotian rodent, orangutan culture and crossing the Bering Strait
City Slinkers
Why are coyotes, those cunning denizens of the plains and rural west, moving into urban centers like Chicago and Washington DC?
A Whale Called Phoenix
A very large mammal will help tell an even weightier tale—about the ocean in this crowded, challenging century
Noxious Bogs & Amorous Elephants
Smithsonian's birth, 35 years ago, only hinted at the splendors to follow
35 Who Made a Difference: Daphne Sheldrick
When feelings of kinship transcend the species boundary
35 Who Made a Difference: Janis Carter
The primate who taught other primates how to survive in the wild
ANWR: The Great Divide
The renewed debate over drilling for oil in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge hits home for the two Native groups nearest the nature preserve
Boar War
A marauding hog bites the dust in a border dispute between the United States and Britain that fails to turn ugly
John James Audubon: America's Rare Bird
The foreign-born frontiersman became one of the 19th century's greatest wildlife artists and a hero of the ecology movement
Herd on the Street
In Anchorage, Alaska, you never know when a moose will show up on your doorstep
Close Encounters
Northwest of Seattle, an overly friendly orca polarizes a community
Exotic Climes
Going the extra mile for bears and bats
To the Rescue
Las Vegas showman Jonathan Kraft went from riches to rags to turn a patch of Arizona desert into a refuge for abused and abandoned exotic animals
Three Kiwis?
No, dear reader, this isn't Auckland Today
Incident at Big Pine Key
A pod of dolphins stranded in the Florida Keys reignites an emotional debate over how much human "help" the sea mammals can tolerate
Stimulants
Both ginseng and dolphins evoke passionate emotions
Give the Devil His Due
Blame Bugs Bunny and a nasty yawn for the Tasmanian devil's bad rap
Tiger Tracks
Revisiting his old haunts in Nepal, the author looks for tigers and finds a clever new strategy for saving them
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