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Ranger Rick magazine spread titled Nosey Monkeys, showing a male proboscis monkey with a huge drooping nose sitting on a branch, and a mother carrying her baby up a tree

Nosey Monkeys

Sniff out a few things that make these monkeys from Borneo nose-worthy—er, noteworthy.

Ranger Rick magazine spread titled Panda Twins, showing mother giant panda Huan Huan gently holding her two tiny pink newborn cubs in her mouth, with a caretaker checking a cub in a circle inset

Panda Twins

A mother panda at a French zoo needed some help raising her tiny cubs—and she got it!

Ranger Rick magazine spread titled Peculiar Platypus, showing two platypuses swimming underwater among green water plants and a map of Australia

Peculiar Platypus

This famously funny-looking critter is one of Australia’s favorite mammals. But one look at its duck-like bill gives a hint that it doesn’t play by all the mammal rules!

Magazine spread Piranhas with extreme closeup of piranha sharp teeth and red-bellied school photo

Piranhas

The mouthful of choppers above belongs to a red-bellied piranha. Below, you can see a school of red-bellies. They are one of the few kinds of piranhas that can sometimes be dangerous to people.

Ranger Rick magazine spread titled Polar Bears: A Life on Ice, showing a polar bear mother and two cubs leaping between chunks of sea ice

Polar Bears: A Life on Ice

For most animals, living in the frigid Arctic would be too much to “bear.” But for polar bears, all that ice is very nice!

Ranger Rick magazine spread titled Prickly Porcupines, showing a close-up of a porcupine’s furry face and a porcupine seen from behind with its quills

Prickly Porcupines

A porcupine looks cute and cuddly from the front. But from the back, there’s a “sharp” difference!

Ranger Rick magazine spread titled Little Raccoons, showing two pygmy raccoons wading through shallow water near mangrove roots, with a map marking Cozumel off the coast of Mexico

Pygmy Raccoons

Meet Ranger Rick’s tropical cousins that need a helping hand to survive.

Ranger Rick magazine spread titled Raccoon Rescue, showing two baby raccoons held in a towel, a kit drinking from a bottle, a day-old kit at its first checkup, and a kit with a pacifier

Raccoon Rescue

Wild baby raccoons usually get all the care they need from their mom. But if things go wrong, expert help may be just around the corner!

Ranger Rick magazine spread titled It’s Raining!, showing a mother cheetah shaking rain from her fur over her cubs

Rainy-Day Animals

With a shake-shake-shake, this mother cheetah dries her rain-drenched fur—giving her cubs an accidental shower!

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