The Atlantic
The Atlantic
Zoo staff Sholpan Abdibekova and Tomiris, a 5-year-old chimpanzee, react as they watch a BBC environmental program in a primate winter enclosure in Almaty on March 6, 2015. Zoo employees screen various wildlife TV programs to primates like Tomiris, who were born in the zoo, to help their development at the zoo.
A gray whale (<em>Eschrichtius robustus</em>) emerges from the waters of the Ojo de Liebre Lagoon, Baja California Sur state, Mexico, on March 3, 2015. The Pacific gray whales have been protected since 1947 and are at the center of a growing whale-sightseeing industry. Their numbers have dropped by a third, from around 26,000 in the late 1990s. Whales go to Laguna de Liebre and others lagoons off Mexico's northwest Baja California peninsula, where grey whales breed and nurse their calves…