A new study shows female bonobos team up to fend off males in the wild. Scientists have long wondered why bonobos live in ...

High-definition trail cameras at a national park in the Republic of the Congo revealed a “truly breathtaking” glimpse of some ...

Anthrax has been connected to the death of dozens of hippopotamuses at Virunga National Park in Africa's Democratic Republic of the Congo, according to a new report.

At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in Africa's oldest national park, its ...

At least 50 hippos and other large animals have been killed by anthrax poisoning in eastern Congo's Virunga National Park and ...

These were the first steps of “The Herds”, a moving theatre performance made up of cardboard puppet animals that flee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the Arctic Circle in a bid to bring ...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals – monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe – stand at attention in a clearing. Their handlers, puppeteers dressed ...

The killings occurred in retaliation against staff at the Institute in Congo for the Conservation of Nature for thwarting ... Jeffrey Flocken of the International Fund for Animal Welfare reports that ...

Three decades of observations in Congo — the only place the endangered ... a strategy has allowed females to come out on top in the animal kingdom. Spotted hyenas similarly find power in groups.