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OverviewThe Stone Marten (Martes foina), frequently referred to across continental Europe as the beech marten or house marten, is a highly resourceful, medium-sized mustelid native to a wide swath of Eurasia spanning from the Atlantic coast of Europe across the...
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OverviewThe Bat-eared Fox (Otocyon megalotis) is an extraordinary, insectivorous canid endemic to the arid open savannas and short-grass plains of sub-Saharan Africa. Exhibiting a disjunct geographic distribution, the species occurs in two distinct populations...
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OverviewThe American Marten (Martes americana), frequently known as the pine marten, is an agile, semi-arboreal mustelid that inhabits the expansive boreal and montane coniferous forests of North America. Spanning from Alaska and the Canadian taiga south into the...
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OverviewThe Brown Hyena (Parahyaena brunnea), historically referred to along the Atlantic seaboard as the ‘strandwolf,’ is an enigmatic arid-adapted carnivoran endemic to the desert basins and thornscrub biomes of southern Africa. Predominantly inhabiting...
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OverviewThe Sable (Martes zibellina) is an iconic medium-sized mustelid native to the vast boreal taiga forests of Northern Eurasia, extending from the Ural Mountains through the Siberian wilderness to northern Mongolia, northeastern China, and Hokkaido, Japan....
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The Ross Seal (Ommatophoca rossii) is the least understood, most enigmatic, and geographically elusive phocid seal on planet Earth. Inhabiting the impenetrable, consolidated deep pack ice fields of the frozen Southern Ocean, this extraordinary Antarctic marine mammal...
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The Baikal Seal (Pusa sibirica), affectionately known locally as the ‘nerpa’, is an evolutionary marvel and the only strictly freshwater, landlocked seal species in existence today. Endemic solely to Lake Baikal in southeastern Siberia—the world’s...
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The Crabeater Seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) is one of the most astonishingly abundant and ecologically influential large wild mammals on planet Earth. Despite its misleading common name—it does not consume crabs at all—this streamlined Antarctic phocid exists in...
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The Weddell Seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) is an iconic, ice-dwelling phocid pinniped that holds the extraordinary distinction of being the southernmost naturally occurring breeding mammal on planet Earth. Thriving along the permanent shore-fast ice shelves of...
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The Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus) is one of the world’s rarest, most historically storied, and critically imperiled marine mammals. Once ubiquitous throughout the ancient Mediterranean basin, Black Sea, and eastern Atlantic seaboard, this gentle...
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