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,…
John Mitani has studied apes for decades. Learn more about what he finds interesting about our nearest living relatives.
Scientists used genetic signals in elephant poop to learn that there are about about 95,000 forest elephants in Gabon.
From across the forests and savannas, mountains, oceans, and skies of the world, welcome to a celebration of the animals that you know and love – it’s the … It’s the world’s largest land mammal and it packed its trunk just to be here ……
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From across the forests and savannas, mountains, oceans, and skies of the world, welcome to a celebration of the animals that you know and love – it’s the … It’s the tallest land mammal in the world. You know it by its spots and long…
The two species of rhinos that live in Africa are the black rhino and the white rhino.
This time on Candid Animal Cam, Romi shares some great hippopotamus facts with us: A few facts about hippos: Common hippos live in Sub-Saharan Africa. The common hippo is the 3rd largest living land mammal (behind elephants and white rhinos). Hippos can move quickly in…