Giraffes are among the world's most recognizable animals. With their elongated necks and long legs, their gracious movements ...

The savanna (sometimes mistakenly spelled as "Savannah," which is in the state of Georgia) describes an African region with ...

Africa is home to a rich array of carnivorous ... It’s classed as an endangered species on the IUCN Red List, with recent monitoring data estimating that just 454 adult wolves in 99 packs ...

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 ...

Voice of a forest, the red-eared monkey is the most abundant of Bioko Island’s 11 primate species. At least 12,000 years of isolation from mainland Africa has helped produce a one-of-a-kind ...

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species: savanna elephants and forest elephants. The reclassification — part of an update to IUCN’s Red List of ...