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 ...

N.M. - Any hunter can learn to shoot an African oryx (gemsbok), but it lakes a passle ... who transplanted seven of the sleek, fawn-colored animals from the game farm near Redrock, N.M., to ...

African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana). Scientists used to think both animals were subspecies of a single African elephant. However, a study published in 2010 found that each elephant ...

At least 12,000 years of isolation from mainland Africa has helped produce a one-of-a-kind ecosystem where life blooms from canopy to soil. In the year 1551 a strange male animal was put on public ...

But unthinkably, African lion numbers have plummeted by over 40% in the ... It means they play a crucial role in keeping a healthy balance of numbers among other animals, especially herbivores like ...

In “Why Animals Talk,” zoologist Arik Kershenbaum argues that knowing what animals are saying is less crucial than why they ...

There’s a theory about what happens when a big cat sets up shop in a forest, and it’s at the center of one of the biggest ...

Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August ...

The African Safari at Balasaheb Thackeray Gorewada International Zoo in Nagpur has been approved with a ₹517.76 crore budget.