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,...
The Victoria Falls National Park is a tiny national park but with its counterpart, the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park across the Zambezi River in Zambia, helps protect one of the largest and best-known waterfalls in the...
The Zambezi River is one of Africa’s great rivers, flowing through five countries and drawing water from a catchment area bigger than that of the Mississippi River in America, an area twice the size of...
