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ANIMAL: TARDIGRADE LOCATION: BLACK FOREST, SOUTHWEST GERMANY How do you photograph a critter that’s smaller than a pencil point? Nat Geo photographer Oliver Meckes explains how he used a special microscope to capture this tardigrade, a tiny “water bear” that lives in moss and soil. “My team and I were in the Black Forest to collect microorganisms—animals that are too small to see without a microscope. First, we gathered some soil with a little moss. At the lab, we washed out the organisms into a petri dish and found this tardigrade. We were lucky—tardigrades are part of this habitat, but they’re pretty rare. “To take the picture, we lifted the animal using an eyebrow hair and placed the tardigrade under a microscope. As we looked at the creature through the…
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Tracking bears? Rescuing baby turtles? For National Geographic Explorers studying South America’s Amazon River, it’s just a day on the job. This 4,000-mile river supports the largest tropical rainforest in the world and provides a home for about three million species of plants and animals. And it needs protection. That’s why the National Geographic Society launched the Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition, a series of scientific studies and conservation projects led by Nat Geo Explorers. To track their adventures and document their research, scientists often keep journals. Check out what we imagine the journals of four Amazon River Explorers might look like.…
THIS JOURNAL ENTRY BELONGS TO: Ruthmery Pillco Huarcaya, wildlife biologist This is my dog, Ukuku, who I rescued and trained to sniff out Andean bear scat. Her name means “Andean bear” in Quechua, the local Indigenous language I grew up speaking. Best Research Partner Ever! NOVEMBER 15 Cloud forest in the Andes Mountains, Peru Wow, what a day! My dog, Ukuku, and I had been searching for hours for any sign of an Andean bear. I examined each tree we passed for scratch marks these animals leave as messages to other bears, and I searched the moss-covered ground for paw prints. Nothing. Suddenly, Ukuku sat still—her signal that she picked up a scent: Andean bear scat! I rewarded her with bacon, then scooped up a scat sample in a test…
