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Ranger Rick magazine spread Glide On featuring flying lizard gliding frog and albatross

Glide On

It’s no surprise to see birds, bats, and bugs fly. But what’s this—a flying lizard?!

Ranger Rick magazine spread titled Home, Sweet Home, showing a gopher tortoise at the sandy entrance to its burrow and a map of where gopher tortoises live

Gopher Tortoises

Wherever this slow-going reptile lives, you’ll find a wild community full of other “happy campers,” too!

Ranger Rick magazine spread titled Growing Up Elk, showing a spotted elk calf running and an elk herd with a big bull walking along a river below snowy mountains

Growing Up Elk

Hello! I’m Elvin Elk—and I’m growing up fast in my beautiful mountain home. Come meet my family and find out about life in an elk herd.

Ranger Rick magazine spread titled Hooray for Hares!, showing a brown hare sitting up in the grass licking its paw, with a hare crouched low in its grassy form in a circle inset

Hares

If you think hares are the same as rabbits you’re “jumping” to the wrong conclusion. Hares and rabbits are related, but hares are not rabbits. Hares are hares!

Ranger Rick magazine spread titled Bluffer!, showing a brown and black hog-nosed snake coiled on sand and a close-up of its upturned snout

Hog-Nosed Snakes

A snake is a snake, right? Don’t be so sure. THIS snake often pretends to be something else altogether!

Magazine spread Its a Snake with green pit viper coiled on branch and snake scale texture closeups

It’s a Snake!

It hisses. It slithers. It’s covered in scales. Make no mistake . . .

Ranger Rick magazine spread titled Water Cat, showing a jaguar walking along a muddy riverbank and a jaguar cub swimming

Jaguars

Unlike most cats, a jaguar (JAG-whar) is right at home in the water.

Ranger Rick magazine spread titled Giant!, showing a huge brown Japanese giant salamander climbing out of a rushing mountain stream onto mossy rocks

Japanese Giant Salamander

The wrinkly, slimy creature is covered with warts and folds of skin. Tiny eyes peer out from its wide, flat head. With massive mouth agape, it shows off small but sharp teeth, all the better to fight and bite!

Ranger Rick magazine spread showing a dark male jumping spider dancing for a paler female, a jumping spider beside its shed skin, and a mother jumping spider guarding her spiderlings in a silk nest

Jumping Spiders

Whee! What could be more fun than taking a wild leap through the air, with the wind blowing through your hair? For this hairy little spider, it’s a way of life. Want to find out more? Jump right in!

Ranger Rick magazine opening spread titled Dragon!, showing a huge Komodo dragon flicking its forked tongue on a beach, with a map of Indonesia

Komodo Dragons

Thousands of years ago, some ancient sailors and traders visited faraway islands in the Indian Ocean. Imagine their surprise—and horror—when they saw reptiles like this one, nearly the size of gators.

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