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Rivers provide prey in the form of fish, turtles, or caimans—small, alligatorlike animals. Jaguars also eat larger animals such as deer, peccaries, capybaras, and tapirs. They sometimes climb trees to …

The booming business in exotic pets is known as the exotic pet trade. Some of this trade is legal, but many times animals are captured from the wild illegally to supply demand for exotic pets.

The odds of animals such as tigers and wolves surviving freedom are only 33 percent, according to a team of researchers from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.

They exist in the wild in only one place on Earth—the lake complex of Xochimilco (pronounced SO-chee-MILL-koh), a network of artificial channels, small lakes, and temporary wetlands that help …

Sep 10, 2010 · An assessment by the International Union for the Conservation of Species found that only 50 to a thousand axolotls are left in the wild. And their numbers are dropping.