Wildlife
Safari wildlife guides, sightings and species insights from East and Southern Africa — elephants, big cats, birdlife and more.
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Elephants Can’t Look Up: Wesley Hartmann on Drones and Elephants
Wesley Hartmann flew nearly 150 drone flights at wild elephants in Malawi and found that the angle of approach mattered more than…
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210,000 Seals: What to Expect at Cape Cross
The number first Two hundred and ten thousand. That is the figure Namibia’s environment ministry uses for the number of Cape fur…
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Giraffes: Everything Worth Knowing About Africa’s Tallest Animal
You have almost certainly photographed a giraffe. Most people who go on safari come home with several, usually taken in the first…
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The Elephants Who Learned the Desert
Namibia’s desert-adapted elephants aren’t a different species — they’re ordinary savanna elephants who learned to survive somewhere almost nothing should. The science,…
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Gorongosa National Park: Walking With Pangolins in Africa’s Great Comeback
Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park runs the country’s only pangolin rescue centre, where guests can walk beside rescued pangolins being returned to the…
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Elephant Corridors Across Africa
No single reserve is big enough to feed an elephant year-round. A look at the corridors between them — from Botswana’s Linyanti…
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Speak Bush: How Wildlife Really Talks to Each Other
Alarm calls, sentinel duty, sneeze-votes, infrasound and more — how Africa’s wildlife talks to itself, and what it means for what you…
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A New Monkey Emerges from the Congo: Meet the Likweli
Scientists have described a brand-new African monkey — Colobus congoensis, the “Likweli” — from the rainforests of the DR Congo. Only the…
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The Elusive Eleven: Africa’s Hardest Animals to Spot
Beyond the Big Five lies a second, far more secretive list — the Elusive Eleven. Mostly nocturnal, solitary and shy, these are…
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Saving the Pangolin: Africa’s Most Trafficked Mammal
Almost no one ever sees a pangolin — yet it is the most trafficked wild mammal on earth. Why Africa’s scaly anteater…