African buffalo

A pest to ranchers, a prize to hunters, and a temperamental tank to anything that bothers it, African buffalo roam by the thousands in sub-Saharan Africa. Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies ...
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The Dark History of Africa’s “Big Five” and Their Conservation Status

Today, the term “Big Five” refers to the beauty and power of some of Africa’s most iconic animals. However, it has a much darker history. Trophy hunters in the 19th century considered elephants, ...
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Cincinnati Zoo's African penguins will soon have new habitat that's 3x its current one

The African penguins at the Cincinnati Zoo will soon have a new habitat.The Cincinnati Zoo tweeted the news Saturday, which is African Penguin Awareness Day.Zoo officials said the new habitat will be ...
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African Open Habitats Existed 10 Million Years Earlier Than Previously Estimated

Scientists have long hypthesized that apes living in Africa more than 20 million years ago had a diet largely comprised of fruit while living in a continet-wide ecosystem comprised of thick, closed ...
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Chester Zoo's huge new 'Heart of Africa' habitat set to open

The UK's largest zoo habitat ever created - home to 57 iconic African species - is set to open at Chester Zoo this weekend. The huge new 'Heart of Africa' experience - spanning more than 17 football ...
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Giraffes range across diverse African habitats − we’re using GPS, satellites and statistics to track and protect them

Michael Brown works for the Giraffe Conservation Foundation and is an affiliated researcher for the Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. He receives funding from the Giraffe ...
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Africa's elephants now endangered by poaching, habitat loss

LIBREVILLE – Increasing threats of poaching and loss of habitat have made Africa's elephant populations more endangered, according to a report released Thursday by the International Union for ...
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African great apes are in danger of losing their natural habitats

Gorillas, chimpanzees and bonobos are already listed as endangered and critically endangered wildlife, but the climate change crisis, the destruction of wild areas for minerals, timber, food, and ...
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Humans adapted to diverse habitats before trekking out of Africa

(Reuters) -Small bands of Homo sapiens made a few failed forays leaving our home continent before the species finally managed to launch a major dispersal out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, going ...
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Africa’s elephants now endangered by poaching, habitat loss

LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — Increasing threats of poaching and loss of habitat have made Africa’s elephant populations more endangered, according to a report released Thursday by the International Union ...
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Africa's elephants now endangered by poaching, habitat loss

LIBREVILLE, Gabon — Increasing threats of poaching and loss of habitat have made Africa's elephant populations more endangered, according to a report released Thursday by the International Union for ...