The savanna (sometimes mistakenly spelled as "Savannah," which is in the state of Georgia) describes an African region with grasslands and minimal tree densities. This wide-open landscape becomes a ...

Two recently published studies by a Montana State University ecologist reveal new findings about the relationship between ...

Around the same time, bush-meat sales increased in Malabo. As in much of West Africa, bush meat, from wild animals in the forest, particularly from monkeys, is prized as a delicacy, even though it ...

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 ...

Lions may not have the cheetah's speed or the leopard's forest cover, but they have other tricks for hunting prey. Masters of stealth and teamwork, lions work together to outwit and overpower their ...

In South Africa, private reserves ... is home to a concentration of wild animals in a spectacular setting of rocks peaks and lush green valleys. Impalas, zebras and wildebeest regularly cross ...