Standing on a riverbank in Lac Télé Community Reserve in March, naturalist Joseph Oyange watched as fishermen guided their ...

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A new study has shown that giraffes do not traverse slopes of more than 20° degrees. The post Research shows giraffes ...

Giraffes avoid steep slopes, impacting habitat suitability and conservation efforts in protected African reserves.

Groenkop is one of many pockets of Indigenous forest scattered across the African continent, from Cape Town in the south all the way up to Benin in West Africa.

New research finds that giraffes much prefer flat terrain and do not traverse slopes of more than 20°, which severely limits the areas in, and outside, protected reserves they can access. The findings ...

Analysis - Compared with Africa's other big animals, hippos have been relatively neglected in scientific research. Partly, this is because they're hard to study and dangerous to encounter.

However, traditional habitat suitability models primarily focus on vegetation distribution ... across five reserves in South ...

The Caprhiobia sp. bug, native to South Africa, has a voracious appetite for vegetation and is capable of causing widespread crop damage. USDA officials confirmed this was the first time it had been ...

It will be interesting to see if Mojang ever considers adding an official sky island biome in a future update, as multiple fan-made versions of this concept suggest there is interest in the idea.