Visitors to safari lodges built along river-banks or in other areas with dense undergrowth will sometimes be surprised to see a medium-sized antelope quietly staring at them from only a few meters away. Once certain...
On a pleasant sunny day in late July, Chundu Island guide Johannes Mankuli was taking guests for a boat ride on the broad Zambezi River on Zimbabwe’s northern border when he noticed a herd of...
A giant baobab towering over the surrounding bush, sometime with an elephant or two feeding nearby, is one of the iconic images of Africa. Despite this, recently published genetic research shows that the species of baobab...
Scientists investigating carbon storage and water acidity in the Namaqualand region of South Africa have discovered that some termite mounds in the area are 34 000 years old....
Elephants produce low frequency “rumbles”, some of which are at frequencies humans are unable to hear, by forcing air from the lungs over their vocal cords creating the "rumble”. The animals emit some of these...
The Zambezi National Park has for years lived in the shadow of the Victoria Falls National Park, its justifiably famous neighbour, despite the two areas sharing some 56 000 hectares (110 000 acres) of unfenced,...
