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The diminutive Karoo dwarf tortoise (Chersobius boulengeri) may play an outsized role as gardener in its arid South African habitat. Researchers gathered droppings of the miniature species this endangered tortoise is one of the world’s smallest, maxing out at 11 centimeters (4.3 inches) in length and analyzed them to identify its preferred diet. […]
Senegalese biologist Tomas Diagne is looking to break ground on the outskirts of Dakar, Senegal, on a new permanent base for his African Chelonian Institute
Camera traps bring you closer to the secretive natural world and are an important conservation tool to study wildlife. This week we are meeting the bushbuck. The bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus) is an antelope found in sub-Saharan forests and brush. It is the least social and non-territorial of the African antelopes with adult rams actively avoiding eye […]
After a gruelling trip by air and road, several dozen endangered African tortoises groggily poked their heads out of their shells to take a look at their ancestral homeland.