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My heart sank at our boatman’s words, “I can’t get you any closer than that!”The backlit blob thirty-something feet above, mostly hidden by vegetation, was hardly the photograph I wanted of a Pygmy Sloth. Two plane rides and a 50-mile boat ride to see a...

After Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America, we now head to South America for the next continent in this exploration of nature around the world series…Immersed and adrift in the Galápagos’ Humboldt Current, I gazed through my snorkel mask at a blanket of water...