The term “buffalo” usually refers to the African buffalo, as well as the Asian water buffalo. The African buffalo is a large ...

Cranes are some of the world's most majestic birds, with 15 species found globally. Four of these are found in Africa. The ...

Scientists added descriptive terms to the existing general Indigenous frog and reptile names to make them specific.

A new global assessment has identified 25 primate species that are now the most endangered on Earth including the Tapanuli ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Vultures have an image problem. Seen as ugly and associated with death, they are among the least loved animals in the world. Conservationists in Africa are trying to ...

The Southern African country plans to butcher ... People in the region eat at least some of the animals listed in the environmental ministry’s cull list, like zebra, blue wildebeest and impala ...

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 ...

Cranes are some of the world's most majestic birds, with 15 species found globally. Four of these are found in Africa. The wattled crane in South Africa was in decline, but seems to have turned a ...

The list includes 136 frog and 407 reptile ... from different cultural backgrounds are talking about the same species. In South Africa, for example, there are 11 official spoken languages and ...