If the youngsters don’t get eaten by larger caiman, birds, snakes, they might attain maturity at 10-15 years of age and be ready to mate. Finally. With one more day left to explore the Pantanal ...

The Pantanal’s bird life is “out of this world,” Ehmke ... The zoo has been a leader in returning curassows, who are shy ground dwellers, to the wild for decades. The golden lion tamarins ...

The Pantanal is the world’s largest ... up a tree to collect a relatively new chick. The bird — with a goofy smile — is taken to the ground to be weighed and checked for wounds, all in ...

Two burrowing owls stand to attention on the ground near their nest ... ago there were only 1,500 of these wonderful birds in the whole of the Pantanal, today there are 6,000.

Many consider bird watching to be an art. If you are an avid bird-watcher here are some of the destinations you should definitely visit ...

Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest wetlands ... we eased from the main river into a creek called Corixo Negro. “This is ground zero for jaguars,” Mr. Lara said. As if on cue, beyond ...

When the rains finish, and the ground dries ... home to more than 1,000 bird species and 300 mammals including the jaguar, capybara, giant otter and tapir. Yet the Pantanal is now threatened ...

Bold and his fellow jaguars are surviving the worst fires to engulf the world's largest tropical wetlands in central-western Brazil, the Pantanal ... for monkeys, birds, snakes and tapirs ...