Meet the chimpanzee, a fascinating animal, and one of our closest living relatives.
August 12 is World Elephant Day. Celebrate these awesome giants of the animal world!
Chimpanzees are the closest living relatives of humans. Like us, chimpanzees use technology. Primatologist Catherine Hobaiter and her team watched a young female chimpanzee they call Onyofi digging in the mud of her rainforest habitat in western Uganda. Hobaiter, who works at the University of St. Andrews…
Learn about lions. And learn how to say 10 animal names in Swahili.
Learn about the inspiring work of environmentalist Farmer Tantoh and his quest to help bring clean water and gardens to Cameroon.
The Junior Giraffe Club has prepared these videos to answer some frequently asked questions about giraffes.
Mongabay Kids is pleased to open the Giraffe Spot, a space dedicated to the world’s tallest land mammal. Visit the Giraffe Spot for facts, fun, and learn how to help these giants of the animal world.
Travel to Africa and Madagascar to meet some awesome animals and plants and the people who find them fascinating.
A community in Kenya has had great success regrowing their local forest. Read the story to learn more!
Sometimes species go missing … A “missing” animal still knows where it is, of course! But scientists and conservationists may not have seen it for a long time. Sometimes a species is not seen for so long that it is thought to be extinct. Hill’s horsehoe…
What would happen if nature threw a scaly dinosaur and a koala into a blender and spit the result back out to live in the forests and grasslands of Africa and Asia? The result might look like a pangolin: A pangolin. Photo credit: Tikki Hywood…
Journey to the Okavango Delta The Okavango Delta is a large freshwater wetland located in northern Botswana. A river delta is where the mouth of a river empties out, often into another body of water such as a lake or ocean. Where rivers empty out,…