Photo gallery: wildlife

Blue crane	Reddish snake with dark brown bands (Malaysia)	Malayan Tapir (Tapirus indicus)	Mantidactylus asper leaf frog on Nosy Mangabe
Gray tree frog on leaf (Indonesia)	Small brown praying mantis (Indonesia)	Long-tailed Macaque on boardwalk at Rimba Lodge (Indonesia)	Transparent crab in Gabon (Gabon)
Ring-tailed lemur (Madagascar)	African elephant (Loxodonta africana) (Kenya)	Male ostrich with chicks (Tanzania)	Aruba island rattlesnake (Crotalus unicolor)
Orangutan with a coconut hat and leaf in mouth	Unknown insect (Costa Rica)	Zebra among scrub trees (Tanzania)	Wildebeest herd watching a lion (Kenya)
Turquoise-headed black flying insect (Brazil)	Wattled jacana (Jacana jacana) Tuqui tuqui Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru)	Centipedes	Greater blue-eared starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus) (Kenya)
Verreaux's Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi) in a territorial chase	Tarantula wasp (Black wasp-like insect with indigo blue eyes; orange wings; and orange antenna) (Costa Rica)	Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) (Kenya)	Swainsonís Toucan (Ramphastos swainsonii) (Costa Rica)
Baby forest dragon	Leaf toad (Bufo margaritifer) (Suriname)	Madagascar Red Fody (Foudia madagascariensis)	Verreaux's Sifaka (Propithecus verreauxi)
Chestnut-mandibled Toucan (Ramphastos swainsonii) (Costa Rica)	Colorful butterfly feeding on a yellow flower	Gray-winged Trumpeters (Psophia crepitans) (Suriname)	Green-headed lizard, perhaps a juvenile green basilisk (Costa Rica)
Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna); Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala); and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)	Common woolly monkey at a rehabiltiation center for animals once trafficked for the pet trade	Rainforest ant (Suriname)	Mouse lemur in captivity (Madagascar)
Elephant displaying while others eat (Kenya)	Female Velvet Asity (Philepitta castanea) gathering leaves	Male Long-tailed macaque with baby; eating tubers (Indonesia)	Green praying mantis in Java (Indonesia)
Young orang-utan grasping a woody liana (Indonesia)	American Crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) (Costa Rica)	Mexican Spider Monkey feeding in the forest canopy	Leaf-footed bug nymph
Female lion standing over its kill (Tanzania)	Ring-tailed lemurs keeping warm (Madagascar)	Black-crowned Night Herons (Nycticorax nycticorax) (Brazil)	Mother and baby orangutan in at tree
Yellow and brown toad with black markings	Giant leaf-tail gecko (Uroplatus fimbriatus)	Elephants on the African savanna (Kenya)	Beige katydid (Costa Rica)
Brownish-red beetle (Costa Rica)	Black beetle with yellow markings (Gabon)	Black and yellow grasshopper	Spix's Guan; Penelope jacquacu; on clay lick Local name: Pucacunga Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)
Anhinga (Brazil)	Multicolored spider (Costa Rica)	Young orang-utan in Tanjung Puting National Park (Indonesia)	Dry grass-colored praying mantis