From rhythmic complexity to infectious melodies, the genre’s attribute has captured its audience far beyond the African continent, setting a stage for Afro-fusion with hip-hop. Key Artists ...

An elephant in South Africa’s Kruger National Park trampled a tourist to death as he was trying to protect children, officials say. The incident Sunday involving 59-year-old Shaik Adam Shabir Ammed ...

While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone as the biggest land animal on earth, and that is the African elephant.

Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the US state’s highest court said the animals had no legal right to demand their release because they are not human.

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed the suit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in May 2024 alleging the park in Colorado Springs kept five elderly African elephants named Missy, Kimba ...

NEW DELHI – A jumbo operation is moving 20 elephants across the breadth of India to the mammoth private zoo set up by the son of Asia’s richest man, adjoining a sprawling oil refinery.

The Nonhuman Rights Project filed a frivolous lawsuit aiming to remove the Zoo’s five aging African elephants,” a spokesperson with the zoo shared in a statement. “While we’re happy with ...

However, the court ruled that "no matter how cognitively, psychologically, or socially sophisticated [elephants] may be," habeas corpus only applies to people. Bulwagi, a 20-year-old African ...

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