In the wild, herbivores are often seen as the peaceful grazers of the animal kingdom—gentle giants simply trying to surv ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered how wild birds cope with baking hot afternoons and freezing cold mornings? Our new study has taken a ...

Many animals eat their parents, siblings, and offspring for different reasons. Common frog tadpoles consume another tadpole. The behavior is most common when resources are scarce.

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 ...

I turned to Africa to explore its traditions — certainly, domesticated animals existed widely. However, I couldn’t find evidence of friendships between people and animals — going by the ...