Mpox is a disease caused by the highly infectious monkeypox virus. It’s quite easily passed on from one person to another. But it originally came from infected animals. It’s not yet certain which ...

Straw-coloured fruit bats exist throughout most of the African continent. This large fruit bat is one of, if not the most numerous fruit-eating animal (called frugivores) in Africa. They live in ...

When it comes to African wildlife, few things capture the imagination like the Big Five animals. I still remember the first time I saw a rhino. It was about 20 years ago, and I was on my first ever ...

Many people have never heard of a red colobus, yet they are Africa's most imperiled group of monkeys. There are 17 species of red colobus found in tropical forests from Senegal in west Africa to the ...

Written by Rosemary Iriowen Egonmwan, Professor of Environmental Physiology of Animals, University of Lagos and Bola Oboh, Professor of Genetics, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, University of ...

The forest elephants of the Congo Basin are critically endangered and face extinction. They live in Africa's largest forest, extending over the continent's west and central regions. Large populations ...

One of Africa’s giant beetles is just one step away from extinction. New research has found that one species of the enormous Goliath beetles has been almost wiped out by the west African cocoa ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. New research analyzing more than 3,000 tropical forest sites reveals that areas with fewer seed-dispersing animals store up to four times less ...