When the massive, barnacle-spotted head of a Pacific gray whale slid alongside Pachico Mayoral's wooden boat, he nervously reached out to touch it. Like other fishermen, he usually beat his boat with a stick to try to frighten the giant mammals away, but for once he hesitated. "The whale ...

The warm climate and lush sub-tropical vegetation of Indonesia provides an ideal habitat for a diverse variety of animal and bird species. For visitors to Bali, holidays are invariably themed with at least some kind of brush with the wildlife. Despite Bali?s popularity as one of the world?s ...