Relocating animals to create new populations ... This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Of all the large African mammals that wildlife veterinarian Pete ...

This story appears in the August 2008 issue of National ... Africa has helped produce a one-of-a-kind ecosystem where life blooms from canopy to soil. In the year 1551 a strange male animal ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The intricate web of cracks and crevices that gives African elephants ... helping the animals stay hydrated between ...

The opposite is also true. In the 19th century, European cattle brought rinderpest—a virus that’s nearly always fatal to hoofed animals—to Africa, and it caused buffalo numbers to crash ...

Many animals have been killed for the hard, hairlike growth, which is revered for medicinal uses in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The horn is also valued in North Africa and the Middle ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National ... Dubai of Africa.” That may seem extreme, but it’s hard to argue with the facts. The lion is Kenya’s signature wild animal, but ...

The white-backed vulture is the most common and widespread vulture in sub-Saharan Africa. It is recognizable ... on carrion—the carcasses of dead animals—and, by eating flesh before it rots ...

Until recently, the black-billed magpie was lumped with the wide­spread magpie (Pica pica) of Eurasia and northwestern Africa, but all evidence suggests a much closer relationship with the yellow ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

This story was originally published in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic ... shop in South Africa, are boxed for shipment to the American who killed the animal in 2010.