Where do monarch butterflies go in winter? Millions of them fly as far as 3,000 miles from the northern United States and southern Canada to a small cluster of mountain forests in central Mexico, arriving by early November and staying until March. It is one of the...
Bison are the animal most people expect to see in Yellowstone and the one whose actual impact on the landscape most visitors never hear about. Beyond the size and the horns, bison reshape the ground they walk on, and Yellowstone’s herd is the reason wild...
Yellowstone is one of the last places on Earth where an entire large mammal food web still runs the way it evolved to. Six ungulate species and seven large predators share roughly 2.2 million acres, and the relationships between them read less like a nature...
Most guides to what to pack for Costa Rica are written for the whole country, offering one long list that covers the beach, the volcano, and the cloud forest all at once. This one is built around a single, specific trip, one of the Costa Rica trips for women that Her...
Scarlet macaws are among the most recognizable birds on Earth, and one of the tropical birds Costa Rica is most closely associated with. The Osa Peninsula is one of the last strongholds where a wild, self-sustaining population has never disappeared. Here are the...
