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"From the love songs of the Mexican free-tailed bat to the dangerous, seductive dance of redback spiders, the language of love rings loud and clear in the animal world, with the end goal of winning her affection clear but the means not always so."

"Experts estimate that between 3,500 and 4,000 tigers exist in the wild. These numbers are drastically lower than the 100,000 or more estimated to have been in the wild at the start of the 20th century. Tigers have and continue to face such issues as poaching, habitat loss, issues with local human populations and the lucrative trade occurring which involves tiger parts.

In order to help save tigers, tiger experts are meeting this week in Nepal in order to determine new ways of saving the tiger. The experts came from twenty different countries, a majority of which are experts from countries which have wild populations of tigers."

Incredible ... the birth of a baby elephant.

Mother Nature knows no boundaries when it comes to making best of friends.

"Whoever said the underworld was a bad, scary place never visited some of these spectacular, cool caves! Formed over thousands, in some cases millions of years, these formerly hidden natural wonders are finally revealing their beauty to those who always thought heaven was someplace above."

"Scientists who studied 14 pairs of rhesus macaque mothers and their infants were surprised by the human way they interacted."

"Illusion is a crucial and amazing component of the animal kingdom."