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Thousands of birds flying south for the winter stop off in Nigeria’s Hadejia Wetlands National Park. Researchers mapped the ...

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I turned to Africa to explore its traditions — certainly, domesticated animals existed widely. However, I couldn’t find evidence of friendships between people and animals — going by the ...

Growing up in southern, Kevin Vogel developed a love for animals by watching nature shows. Then, for 20 years, he and his family had a traveling zoo. But in 2014, they found a permanent home in ...

Genetic evidence indicates that today's people outside of Africa can trace their ancestry to the population of humans, ...

Livelihood diversity wasn't just a feature of ancient African societies; it was key to survival. New research covering millennia of African history reveals that livelihood diversification enabled ...

Four species of bass, all native to North America, have been introduced to South Africa since the 1920s. Now these species ...