One of the only places on Earth to see them in their natural habitat, the wax palms in Cocora Valley can grow to 60m tall, and hundreds of them randomly dot the cleared grassland like floral pinwheels, towering above fields of grazing livestock.

BBC: Colombia��s valley of the palms

The team targeted the animals in their natural habitat to analyse individual variation and consistency in behavioural response.

BBC: Seal pup

The monkeys are wild, but they are accustomed to visitors, and more importantly, the guides know where they hang out, so kids can see the monkeys howling it up in their natural habitat.

BBC: Family fun in Belize

Joseph Garner, of Stanford University, thinks the answer is to keep the labs cool, but let mice cope with the low temperatures as they do in their natural habitat: not by eating more but by building nests.

ECONOMIST: ��and they may return the favour

So much wildlife has been displaced from its natural habitat that deer were running loose in the streets, desperate for water.

BBC: JAN FOX, LA CRESCENTA, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, 2 SEPTEMBER

Unfortunately, they have little natural habitat left, and most of that is in the beautiful, misty, volcanic mountains of Rwanda and Uganda.

FORBES: Gorilla Safari In Uganda and Rwanda

Tragically, they have little natural habitat left, and most of that is in the misty, volcanic mountains of Rwanda and Uganda.

FORBES: Gorilla Safari In Uganda And Rwanda

Conservatives are in their natural habitat here and should fight every day to get the government out of the way of a healthy culture for vulnerable American families.

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Earlier the inquiry at Lymington Town Hall heard that Wightlink had agreed with Natural England that material dredged from the river would be used to replenish Boiler Marsh, a natural habitat in Lymington Harbour.

BBC: Agreement over new Wightlink ferry terminal