Perhaps the most puzzling question Jared Diamond encounters as he investigates animal domestication is: Why were no large mammals ever domesticated in tropical Africa? Africa, south of the Sahara ...

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

This unit of three sessions imagines life at a typical waterhole in the African bush as animals come and go to drink and wash…and engage in the daily battle for survival. The emphasis is on ...

The opposite is also true. In the 19th century, European cattle brought rinderpest—a virus that’s nearly always fatal to hoofed animals—to Africa, and it caused buffalo numbers to crash ...