A Guatemalan wildlife photographer and guide in the Pantanal of Brazil captured rare video of “an intense standoff” the likes of which he’d never seen before. “Moments like this are rare,” Andres ...

A Guatemalan wildlife photographer and guide captured an extraordinary three-hour standoff between a jaguar and giant otters in Brazil’s Pantanal, in footage shared on his Instagram page. The video, ...

A giant otter reclining on a riverside log, its powerful hind legs giving its body the shape of a sidelong question mark, is as regal, and as prepossessing, as any cheetah or tiger. After the jaguar, ...

As the numbers of giant otters in the wild plummeted, the price for their skins increased, and by the late ’70s, they were fetching $250 each. In 1979, Venezuela was the last country to ban the ...