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Hartebeest Facts Africa: The Strange-Headed Antelope That Surprises Everyone First-time safari visitors often dismiss the hartebeest. Its elongated face, bracket-shaped horns, and sloping back give it an ungainly appearance that…

Topi Antelope Facts: The Maasai Mara's Fastest and Most Watchable Antelope The topi stands on a termite mound at dawn. It is watching everything. Its rufous coat catches the early…

Impala Facts Africa: The Antelope That Every Predator Wants for Dinner The impala is the perfect prey animal. It is mid-sized enough to feed a lion or a leopard alone…

Wildebeest Migration Facts: The Annual Cycle Behind Africa's Greatest Show Over one and a half million wildebeest, 250,000 zebras, and 500,000 Thomson's gazelles complete an annual loop through the Serengeti-Mara…

Common Warthog Facts: The Kneeling Digger of Africa's Open Savanna You will see the warthog every day on safari. It is the most visible and most consistently watched large pig…

Grevy's Zebra Kenya: The World's Largest Wild Equid and Its Fight for Survival Most visitors to East Africa see the plains zebra and think they have seen Africa's only zebra.…

Plains Zebra Facts: Stripes, Social Life and Migration in East Africa The plains zebra is Africa's most abundant wild equid. Approximately 500,000 individuals live across sub-Saharan Africa, with the largest…

Giraffe Facts Africa: The World's Tallest Animal and Its Surprising Life The giraffe reaches 5.5 to 6 meters tall. It is the world's tallest living animal by a huge margin.…

Black Rhino Facts: Africa's Critically Endangered Hook-Lipped Browser The black rhino once ranged across most of sub-Saharan Africa in populations that numbered around 65,000 in the 1970s. By 1993, poaching…

White Rhino Facts: Africa's Square-Lipped Grazer and Conservation Success Story At the end of the nineteenth century, fewer than 50 southern white rhinos remained alive. They had been hunted to…