The national animal of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the okapi. An endangered species, it is a symbol of pride for the country ...

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 ...

During the colonial era, some adventurous Europeans tried to harness this African horse. Lord Rothschild famously drove a zebra-drawn carriage through the streets of Victorian London. Yet these ...

A pest to ranchers, a prize to hunters, and a temperamental tank to anything that bothers it, African buffalo roam ... Buffalo and bison aren’t the same animals. How the misnomer came to be ...

They include some of the largest animals on Earth ... about the same weight as an African elephant — of krill every day. Blue whales are massive even at birth. When they are born, they measure ...

says of the animals’ reputation in Africa and beyond. “Once they see how they function, they fall in love with them.” African giant pouched rats are not your typical New York City–style ...

The Karoo Wool Boom in the early 1950s saw huge American cars dashing across the veld, farmers’ wives in ... 400 kilometres to his farm. The South African War and its aftermath nearly killed ...

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Over the past five decades, our field work has helped bring several iconic animals back from the brink of extinction – including white and greater one-horned rhinos, certain populations of African ...

The Bushmen's legendary tracking skills, for instance, allow them to interpret subtle signs in the sand to follow animals ... Phillips, a South African born writer, thought-leader and globally ...