Explore giraffes’ unique sleep patterns—standing rest, rapid REM, and how vigilance keeps them safe from predators.

Discover how giraffes quietly shape the savanna by dispersing seeds and helping ecosystems recover across Africa.

Carefully managed fires generate the maximum diversity of birds and mammals in savannas, new research from the University of York suggests. In the first continent-wide study of the effects of fire on ...

The Great Migration Remains Nature's Most Spectacular Moving Force 3 million wildebeest accompanied by about 200,000 zebras ...

Whether by way of Attenborough, Disney or National Geographic, the iconic scene is familiar to many. The ground trembles and clouds of dust swirl as enormous hordes of large animals thunder across the ...

Guilherme B. Ferreira, Jorge A. Ahumada, Marcelo J. R. Oliveira, Fernando F. de Pinho, Izabela M. Barata, Chris Carbone and Ben Collen Debate about the conservation value of secondary habitats has ...

Two jaguars, caught with a camera trap survey, walk through the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. (Daniel Rocha/UC Davis) From jaguars and ocelots to anteaters and capybara, most land-based mammals living ...

The transformation of the Amazon and Atlantic rainforests into savanna-like environments will change the makeup of both the flora and the fauna of these biomes. A study by Brazilian researchers ...