Wildlife

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Wildlife

These black-and-white beauties are battling extinction but you can help them out – and get close and friendly at the same time – by feeding them and cleaning their habitat

every day in Lou Guan Tai village, a 1.5-hour drive X'IAN CHINA.

Falcons are the fastest animals on earth, swooping at up to 320km per hour towards their prey. It’s humbling, then, to have the majestic bird perched heavily on your arm, looking you in the eye, powerfully linking you to them and to a tradition that dates back over 4000 years.

Green mamba

The eastern green mamba is overall glossy green in color with a lighter bright greenish-yellow belly. Eastern green mambas are an arboreal species and thus are almost always found in trees. The eastern green mamba is an especially.  venomous snake

Sally Lightfoot Crabs in streaming water, Galapagos Islands

Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii) Galapagos))

Giant tortoise Galapagos))

California sea otter, wrapped in kelp and resting in a colony of a dozen sea otters

A humpback whale breaching in Monterey Bay

Sea lions on Pier 39, San Francisco

Ring-tailed lemur, Madagascar

Grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park

Gray wolf at the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowston

Face to face encounter with bison in Yellowstone

One of Yellowstone's 30,000 elk

A Sumatran Tiger At The Orana Wildlife Park, Christchurch. South Island, New Zealand

Hector's dolphins at Porpoise Bay, in the Catlins 

Young hedgehog found on the track outside the pest exclusion fence of theKarori Wildlife Sanctuary

Common brushtail possum