More than 30 million tourists visit Africa every year. It's the destination for safaris and on many bucket lists for ...

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 ...

Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies of the African buffalo, are the most common. They’re distinguished ... Buffalo and bison aren’t the same animals. How the misnomer came to be ...

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 ...