Florida always has been different. Green iguanas (above) fall onto driveways during cold snaps. Thousands of poisonous cane toads escape. Rhesus monkeys break free.
Invasive intruders include hissing ducks, walking catfish, hermaphroditic river eels, bloodsucking worms, pet-eating monitor lizards, and rodent-sized African land snails.
Now the ferocious—and carnivorous—kinkajou is presenting new challenges among the Sunshine State’s strange menagerie. One paper calls Florida the “Jurassic Park” of exotic species.
A colony of vervet monkeys (left) are believed to be descendants from a South Florida breeding center in the 1940s. These Muscovy ducks (right), not the most beloved by Floridians, live at the only rescue facility in the state exclusively dedicated to the species. Read more.
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PHOTOGRAPH BY MARTHA SAXTON, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE COLLECTION
Trick or treat? The National Museum of Ireland—Country Life, near the town of Castlebar, displays this plaster cast of an early 1900s jack-o’-lantern. What is it called?
PHOTOGRAPH BY JAMES RAPPOLD, WILD ORCA PHOTO TAKEN UNDER PERMIT #26288
Killer whales, not eating (um, porpoises): These orcas aren’t getting enough to eat. Their main prey, chinook salmon, are falling in numbers. Scientists are mystified over incidents of these orcas pushing porpoises with their snouts, holding them in their mouths, and carrying them above the water. The rough treatment often kills the porpoises—but the southern resident killer whales don’t eat them.
Blessings and joy: The movie Coco shined a light on the massive Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico, Central America, and parts of the U.S. (Above, revelers in Mexico City celebrate by dressing up as the holiday’s most ubiquitous symbol, a skeletal figure known as the calavera Catrina.) Here are 10 things to know.
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