When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first time I saw a rhino. It was about 20 years ago, and I was on my first ever ...

Many herbivore animals face salt shortages because plants vary in sodium. This shortage shapes movement, safety, and survival ...

Africa is home to some of the most diverse and captivating wildlife on Earth. Sweeping savannas, lush wetlands, and rugged deserts provide the backdrop for encounters with animals found nowhere else.

Researchers from the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences (APES) have contributed significantly to a major ...

The thunder of a rifle echoes across the Savannah. Antelope scatter as birds of all feathers take to the air. A dull thud ...

Mammals living in the African savannah are far more afraid of hearing a human voice than a lion’s growl, according to a new study that may lead to better strategies to steer animals away from poachers ...

Throughout history, numerous animal species have walked the earth. The dinosaurs, for one, are past creatures that we all know were once on our planet but are now gone. Thankfully, too, because have ...

Animal images are so common in African art, and their meanings and purposes assumed to be so obvious, that they are taken for granted. Indeed, Animals in African Art is the first major book wholly ...

Some stories sound made up until you see the evidence lined along the shore. In northern Tanzania, Lake Natron transforms ...

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Indigenous people in southern Africa may have been painting long-extinct creatures from 260 million years ago, even before Western archaeologists described the fossils. In a thought-provoking new ...