Why do Serengeti zebra, wildebeest, and gazelle – all sharing limited food resources – follow the same migratory routes, one after another, in a body-size dependent way? This longstanding question has ...
More than one thousand of some of Kenya’s most endangered animals have died this year because of a devastating drought gripping the region. A report released Friday from Kenya’s Ministry of Tourism, ...
Every year, on the steppes of the Serengeti, the most spectacular migration of animals on our planet: Around two million wildebeest, Burchell's zebra and Thomson's gazelles begin their tour of nearly ...
Perhaps the most puzzling question Jared Diamond encounters as he investigates animal domestication is: Why were no large mammals ever domesticated in tropical Africa? Africa, south of the Sahara, is ...
The perception of the migration for many is of millions of animals - wildebeest/gnu, zebra, gazelle, and topi moving as a single herd and crossing rivers regularly as a single massive organism. The ...