Wildebeest – large African antelopes with distinctively curved horns – are famous for their great migrations on the grasslands of eastern and southern Africa. One hundred and fifty years ago, they ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesian police are investigating the latest animal deaths in Indonesia's largest and problem-plagued zoo. Zoo spokesman Agus Supangkat said Thursday that an 18-month-old male ...

Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we’re meeting an animal that takes part in one of the most amazing ...

FARGO — At first sight, Sylvia Peach Leiviska doesn’t seem like someone who could take down a 600-pound blue wildebeest. But the 12-year-old Fargo girl, who’s 4-foot-8 and 75 pounds, has quite a story ...

The rare moment a python stretched its jaws to an unbelievable size to swallow a wildebeest calf head-first has been caught on camera. The African python looked like its eyes were bigger than its ...

If you grew up watching wildlife shows narrated by the legendary David Attenborough, chances are pretty good that you’re mildly obsessed with the Great East African wildebeest migration. Rolling on ...

African wildebeest, it turns out, have no better friend than the lion. This might surprise viewers of National Geographic Wild‘s first “Big Cat Week,” which kicks off next Monday and runs through ...

If you fall in love with Africa, which is hard not to do, the challenge is where to best consummate your romance. For me, this is no longer a problem, having found Makweti Safari Lodge. The elevation ...

This folder contains two black-and-white photographs, possibly taken by Edmund Heller circa 1908-1917. The photographs depict: a wildebeest sitting on grass; and an African man with a spear (?) and ...