Kenya and Tanzania, the East African countries most often chosen for safari, are justifiably famous for their wildlife. For many travelers, seeing the region’s dazzling animals — lions ...

At the moment, my field work is focused on plant population ecology, especially the demography of arctic and alpine plants and how they respond to climate change, and on the ways that termites ...

Savannas cover almost half the surface of Africa and large areas of Australia, South America and India. So what makes a savanna special? One important factor is they have a wet season, lasting for ...

Chimpanzees bear genetic adaptations that help them thrive in their different forest and savanna habitats, some of which may ...

There’s also the forest buffalo, the West Africa savanna buffalo ... with humans because of their size and aggression. In East Africa, buffalo are known to break fences and tear through crops.