Most safari brochures highlight lions mid-roar and crocodiles lurking at riverbanks. Meanwhile, the animal responsible for more human deaths in Africa than any other large land mammal often looks half ...

The mental well-being of three elephants in a zoo in South Africa is the subject of an unusual court case, with animal ...

Zoo taken to court over claims three South African elephants are depressed - Animal welfare groups claim the elephants, named ...

Few countries have had to deal with the scale of animal disease outbreaks South Africa has had to. Getty Images South Africa has had a number of outbreaks of animal diseases in recent months that ...

The country has sent thousands of lion skeletons to Asia—legally. Experts say this has encouraged an illegal trade, potentially endangering South Africa’s remaining wild lions. For years, South ...