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Big adventures abound in Tanzania. The largest country in East Africa, its borders encompass Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa; Lake Victoria, the continent’s biggest lake (and a primary source of the Nile River); and the largest animal migration on the planet. Oh—and it’s home to the most lions in the world!
Wildlife management is a field that continues to develop as scientists, policy leaders, government officials and local advocates collaborate to ensure that ethics, science and sustainability are the foundation of the field.
Pick a Weed, Save a Life Milkweeds contain various levels of cardiac glycoside compounds or cardenolides, which render the plants toxic to most insects, animals and humans. Despite their seemingly sinister sap, milkweeds breathe life to pollinators and people alike.
The planet we call home is warming faster than at any point in recorded history. As greenhouse gas emissions blanket our Earth, they trap the sun’s heat.
Southern Africa is home to some of the world’s most majestic animals, along with the world’s largest transboundary protected region to help conserve wild expanses. In 2011, Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe came together to formally recognize a 106-million-acre region in Africa’s Kavango and Zambezi river basins as a protected wildlife area.
Turtles and tortoises are some of the oldest living reptiles, having roamed the earth for more than 200 million years. Many people call tortoises turtles, and that’s not wrong. Tortoises are, in fact, turtles, but not all turtles are tortoises.
What sparked the COVID-19 pandemic remains a mystery, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. Several hypotheses exist, but each lacks sufficient evidence to explain the cause of the crisis. Many scientists believe that SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, spread from animals to humans—known as zoonotic transmission—in late 2019.
From swimming sea turtles and playful dolphins to gentle manatees, here are five aquatic animals you can see on a nature tour of Florida’s coastal waters and mangroves. 1. Sea Turtles Florida has five species of sea turtles that nest along its coast.
The Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) officially became extinct in January 2000, when a falling tree landed on Celia, the world’s last wild Pyrenean ibex. Unfortunately, what led up to that unhappy incident was a sad history for this wild mountain goat. Several species of ibex once lived across Africa, Asia and Europe.
Headbutting animals may suffer the same kind of traumatic brain injuries that humans do. By studying them, we could learn how to improve our own brain health.
Brown bears have long captured our imaginations in ways that few other wild animals have—they can stand on their two hind legs, pick things up with their paws, and as omnivores, they even like to eat a lot of the same food as humans.
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown, isolated population of polar bears living in Southeast Greenland that has found a unique way to survive.
