Life in the swamps can still be harsh for some animals. Species such as the crab-eating macaque and fishing cat can adapt somewhat readily to a life of swimming and foraging for crustaceans. Meanwhile ...

Folks might want to ring in the new year by getting back to nature and taking a mangrove adventure hike on Saturday at the Anne Kolb Nature Center in Hollywood. Participants will be introduced to ...

Mangroves are home to many kinds of birds who build their nests in the canopies. You’ll also find insects, frogs, snakes, lizards, and monkeys among the branches, with crabs burrowing beneath ...

A tropical fish that lives in mangrove swamps across the Americas can survive out of water for months at a time, similar to how animals adapted to land millions of years ago, a new study shows.

No bigger than a fingernail, these seemingly simple jellies have a complex visual system with 24 eyes embedded in their bell-like body. Living in mangrove swamps, the animal uses its vision to ...

To try to find out why the animals constantly look up, Nilsson and his team placed box jellyfish in a clear, open-top tank, lowered it into a mangrove swamp in Puerto Rico, and monitored the ...

To draw attention to peat and mangrove swamps as current — and possibly future — wildlife refuges, ... Consequently, conservation groups have not intensely monitored the animals' swamp use.

The paper, "Mangrove and Peat Swamp Forests: Refuge Habitats for Primates and Felids," was published in the journal Folia Primatologica. RELATED TOPICS Plants & Animals ...