Sea otters are marine mammals well noted for their thick fur and playfulness. It inhabits the coasts of the northern Pacific ...

Around the same time, bush-meat sales increased in Malabo. As in much of West Africa, bush meat, from wild animals in the forest, particularly from monkeys, is prized as a delicacy, even though it ...

They live in herds of 50-500 animals in habitats ranging from wetlands to forests to open plains across sub-Saharan Africa. The most essential factor is proximity to water. In the wild, their lifespan ...

There’s also the forest buffalo, the West Africa savanna ... a virus that’s nearly always fatal to hoofed animals—to Africa, and it caused buffalo numbers to crash across the continent.

We hypothesise that ‘intermediate’-looking animals are a result of hybridisation, or the adaptation of some populations of forest origin to a more open environment in West Africa.

Elephants have the longest gestation period of any animal at 22 months ... is crucial to the maintenance of tree diversity in Central Africa — which houses the world's second largest rainforest.

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants ... of these desperately imperiled animals,” said Tanya Sanerib, international legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity.

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