A new list of threatened mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini shows that 11 more species have edged closer to ...

The decision by British American Tobacco (BAT) to stop producing cigarettes in South Africa due to rampant illicit cigarette ...

Baobabs are sometimes called "upside-down trees," because their branches look like roots reaching skyward. Of the eight species of baobab in the world, six are confined to Madagascar, one to northern ...

Researchers recently investigated hammer-headed bat populations in southern Cameroon. The mixed-methods investigation was conducted in mature rainforest, where these massive, bizarre-looking bats ...

Scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have identified active circulation of Marburg virus in bat colonies for the first time in Sierra Leone, according to a study ...

Straw-coloured fruit bats love fruits above everything, for example date palms and mangos – or, as in this case, sugar plums c). However, they do not eat the whole fruit, but press out the juice and ...

Introduction. Geographical scope ; Classification and taxonomy ; Conservation status -- Museum collections and pioneering researchers. Researcher gallery ; The value of specimens ; Chiroptera ...