In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals – monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe – stand to attention in a clearing.

Dozens of hippopotamuses have died from anthrax poisoning at Africa’s oldest national park. Anthrax, a severe illness most ...

A wildebeest, a gorilla and a giraffe were among the life-size puppets to begin a 20,000-kilometre (12,400-mile) trek across ...

At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s ...

WWF will lend its global brand to the dramatic public art and climate activation, THE HERDS, in a bid to inspire people ...

University of Delaware entomologist Doug Tallamy's research has identified “keystone” plant species that make up the ...

A peep from a bonobo is believed to mean roughly “I would like to…” and a whistle is believed to mean “let’s stay together.” But when combined to make a “peep-whistle,” it’s thought to mean something ...

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into ...

The peeps, hoots and grunts of wild bonobos, a species of great ape living in the African rainforest, can convey complex ...

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

The country that President Donald Trump declared "nobody's ever heard of" during his 4 March address to Congress has been hit ...