The Japanese macaque has unusual behaviors, including bathing together in hot springs and rolling snowballs for fun.

The dusky leaf monkey, spectacled langur, or spectacled leaf monkey (Trachypithecus obscurus) is a species of primate in the Cercopithecidae family. It is found in Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand.

They may or may not be racist.

Macaque borrows photographer’s camera to take hilarious self-portraits

Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus)

hizumund:

There are fewer than 35 Amur Leopards left in the wild.

Please help save this beautiful, rare and often unknown animal.

Click to access the WWF site, to learn more about Amur Leopards and to donate or adopt one.

Thank you for reading :) 

(via theanimalblog)

usnews:

Biologists Report More Bad News for Polar Bears: Climate change will force them south, where they are unsuited for the diet

“The implication is that polar bears are likely to lose out in competition for food to grizzlies as warmer temperatures bring them into the same environments, because grizzlies’ stronger skulls are better suited to a plant-rich diet, said Slater and Blaire Van Valkenburgh, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and senior author of the research.”

Photo via USGS/USCG

(via theanimalblog)

(Source: theanimalblog)