Lions and hyenas are a familiar sight to tourists visiting Africa, with many looking forward to seeing them in person. But the animals may occasionally spend less time near roads crowded by humans, ...

Researchers from the University of Georgia studied animals for two years in Namibia, Africa, and found that the presence of humans was causing many of them to change their behaviors. According to ...

Caves can be thought of as nature’s original prefabricated homes. Here are five animal species that choose to live in them. While the image of early humans huddled in caves has become an almost ...

A new study shows that the number of lions in Uganda is dwindling, and researchers say action needs to be taken soon to help preserve their population. For the study, published in the Global Ecology ...

“My first reaction was disbelief until I checked the photos and videos of the remains,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. Adbullah Nagy from Al-Azhar University, Egypt. “Seeing the evidence, I was ...

Lions and spotted hyenas: two species of social predator that rule the African plains. But for Kevin Richardson, these fearsome carnivores are among his best friends. Now his lions and hyenas are ...

One of the near-threatened large carnivores found in Namdeb’s mining licence areas, as classified by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), is the brown hyena. The brown hyena is ...