From shorebirds flying between their Arctic breeding grounds and southerly foraging ranges to freshwater fish returning to native spawning streams, migratory animals are struggling. About half of all ...

It was a misty morning, soon to be scorching, like every day in Niger, when we arrived at the riverbank. I was 17, living in the capital, Niamey, while my mother worked as a diplomat at the US embassy ...

Footage from John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Michigan, shows Hugo, a baby pygmy hippo born Sept. 3, 2025, sleepily yawning.

Animals on land and sea use sound for different purposes – and alterations in their environment can change the effect it has ...

Despite its widespread biodiversity, Australia holds an unenviable record when it comes to wildlife: the highest mammalian ...

Hubland Campus of Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU). This is the result of a study carried out by the Chair of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology at the JMU Biocentre from 2012 to 2023.

Having watched this clip, it’s hard to miss the caution lions show around hippopotamuses. Even though lions are often described as apex predators in their ecosystems, these individuals don’t linger ...

We are in Kenya where we see the boss of Africa, the hippo, come up to the river to nudge these crocodiles away.

A TikTok video shows a man fleeing from a hippo in the wild. Viewers were captivated by the encounter and the man's shocking escape from the massive creature.

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 ...

They may be the size of a Shetland pony and weigh up to 275kg (600lb) but pigmy hippos are very hard to spot in the wild. In their West African homelands they live in dense forest and only move around ...