Ever wondered what the largest land animal is? "African Elephants: The Largest Animal on Earth," will give you the info you ...

This brings significant safety concerns, as Africa is home to numerous powerful animals, and close interactions pose risks to humans. Rhinoceroses, or rhinos, are the second-largest land animals ...

Perhaps the most puzzling question Jared Diamond encounters as he investigates animal domestication ... domestication of other African wild game. Rhinos, at over 5 tons in weight and immensely ...

One of the more immediate ancestors of modern humans, Homo erectus, lived between 500 thousand and 1.5 million years ago ... of evidence found at one of Africa's most important geological sites ...

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 ...

This unit of three sessions imagines life at a typical waterhole in the African bush as animals come and go to drink and wash…and engage in the daily battle for survival. The emphasis is on ...