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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...