Highlights
Like so many other groups in the Philippines, owls come in an amazing variety of sizes and habits, often with five or six species living in the same area. The smallest are only seven inches long, about the size of a large thrush such as the American robin...

Rats and mice have a bad reputation. The very word "rat" in English immediately brings to mind a squinty-eyed, ugly, voracious, disease-ridden, aggressive animal that breeds prolifically unless constantly opposed through trapping and poisoning. There are,...

The presence of natural forest of nearly any type has great beneficial effects on watersheds. Hills and mountains that are protected from logging have ground cover in the form of live plants and dead leaves that break the impact of rainfall, and deep...