Photo gallery: wildlife

Orb spider with yellow, blue, white, brown, and black markings (Indonesia)	Green Mantella (Mantella viridis)	Heron on bank at Lake Tempe (Indonesia)	Common green iguana (Brazil)
White-footed sportive lemur (Lepilemur leucopus) (Berenty)	Black beetle (Costa Rica)	Common woolly monkey	Grey caterpillar with orange; yellow; and black markings (Costa Rica)
White-winged Swallow (Tachycineta albiventer) (Brazil)	Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) - headshot (Kenya)	Leaf-cutter ants (Suriname)	Mother caiman protecting her young (Costa Rica)
Full Lipped Orangutan	Green and beige walking stick	Infant elephant (Kenya)	Asian vine snake
Microcebus rufus (Brown mouse lemur) (Ranomafana N.P.)	Black and yellow weevil	Black butterfly with blue-purple markings on its wings (Indonesia)	Calumma parsoni chameleon near Perinet (Andasibe)
Varecia variegata rubra lemur (Masoala NP)	Giant black Carpenter bee (Xylocopa sp) flying towards a yellow flower (Brazil)	Red-and-green macaws (Ara chloroptera) Macaws; parrots; and other birds feed on clay for mineral and salt supplementation and to counter dietary toxins they ingest from seeds. The clay lick also serves as a social setting for the birds Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru)	Standing ring-tailed lemur on cliff wall (Isalo)
Avahi laniger lemurs (Masoala NP)	Mantidactylus pulcher	Eastern Lesser Bamboo Lemur (Hapalemur griseus)	Furcifer campani near Ifasina
Researcher working with a mouse lemur in Ranomafana	Blue-and-yellow macaw (Ara ararauna) in flight Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)	Brown tarantula (Suriname)	Spotted tree frog in New Guinea
Green praying mantis among leaves (Gabon)	Mass of snakes (Dromicodryas bernieri)	Caterpillar (Suriname)	Blue-and-orange caterpillar (Utah; United States)
Giant Leaftailed Gecko (Uroplatus fimbriatus)	Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko)	Plains zebra foal (Kenya)	Coquerel's Sifaka eating leaves
Neotropic cormorant Location: Manu National Park in the Rainforest of Peru (Peru)	Bornean Gliding leopard frog (Rhacophorus pardalis)	Black scorpion with maroon pinchers (Brazil)	Madagascar Wagtail (Motacilla flaviventris)
Green katydid with black stripes	Madagascar leaf-nosed snake (Langaha madagascariensis)	Mantid purple antenna	Wild Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)
Yellow-orange moth (Indonesia)	Scarlet macaw (Ara macao) headshot Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)	Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda) (Belize)	Gray Bamboo Lemur (Hapalemur griseus)
Ex-captive adult male Borneo Orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus) (Indonesia)	Black and yellow weevil (Laos)	Green walking stick insect	Golden Mantella poison frog from Madagascar
Blue-and-yellow macaws (Ara ararauna); Yellow-crowned parrots (Amazona ochrocephala); and Scarlet macaws feeding on clay Location: Tambopata rainforest (Peru)	Swainson's Toucan (Ramphastos swainsonii) in flight (Costa Rica)	Bornean Flying leopard frog (Rhacophorus pardalis)	Giant dragonfly (Suriname)