More than 30 million tourists visit Africa every year. It's the destination for safaris and on many bucket lists for ...

Perhaps the most puzzling question Jared Diamond encounters as he investigates animal domestication is: Why were no large mammals ever domesticated in tropical Africa? Africa, south of the Sahara ...

The opposite is also true. In the 19th century, European cattle brought rinderpest—a virus that’s nearly always fatal to hoofed animals—to Africa, and it caused buffalo numbers to crash ...

“Everybody’s first impression is that the rats are our enemies,” Tefera Agizew, a physician and APOPO’s head of tuberculosis, says of the animals’ reputation in Africa and beyond.

There are about 4 million stray pets in South Africa and global animal welfare organisation FOUR PAWS says compounding the issue is the growing number of unsterilised pets which poses a health ...

This unit of three sessions imagines life at a typical waterhole in the African bush as animals come and go to drink and wash…and engage in the daily battle for survival. The emphasis is on ...