The drug lord Pablo Escobar built a private zoo filled with hippos, but things took a dangerous turn when he was shot dead. Read more about it here.

In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a ...

Feeling confident after a couple of days with our incredible guide Adam – a Zambian who grew up moments from the National Park, and whose unparalleled knowledge and cheeky sense of humour really made ...

Five lions were sprawled out and sunning on rocks alongside Kenya’s Voi River. Hippos wallowed nearby. Elephants drank and ...

He records stories of giant ants in India, flying snakes in the Arabian peninsula, and half-lion, half-eagle griffins ... Famous Christian theologian Augustine of Hippo wrestled with the question ...

While on holiday some tourist gets a speedy surprise by a Hippo ... tree and kills an impala; a bear cub comes over to a set-up camera and investigates it with its mouth; a crocodile leaps out of the ...

The lion may be considered the king of the jungle, but that doesn’t mean that this predator is invincible. Lions go after ...

At least 50 hippos and other large animals at Virunga National Park in the DRC are thought to be killed by the bacterial ...

At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s ...

Anthrax has been connected to the death of dozens of hippopotamuses at Virunga National Park in Africa's Democratic Republic ...