The primate who ruled the news vanished again. A quest to find him led deep into Florida’s monkey kingdom.

Birds do it. Bees do it. Learning about the astounding navigational feats of wild creatures can teach us a lot about where we’re going.

An encounter with a bear opens a strange world of self-discovery.

What does it take to save a 300-pound loggerhead with a horrible injury? Inside the yearlong journey of recovery.

A visually impaired traveler journeys through the wilds of Zimbabwe and discovers a side of the safari experience that very few know.

The author survives a bite by a venomous snake in a remote area of Yosemite National Park.

My leg, from toe to hip, turned black and yellow and eventually swelled to 24 inches, more than twice its normal circumference.

A beached whale creates a ripple effect in a small fishing village.

On the slow death of a beached humpback whale.

On Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s lust for blood-sport.

The diarist and photographer Peter Beard, known both for his series documenting a mass elephant starvation and for discovering the supermodel Iman on a Nairobi street, reflects on his life of “drugs, debt, and beautiful women” while recovering from being trampled by an elephant.