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For millions of years, elephants have undertaken seasonal migrations, following the rains that nourish the foliage they eat. On the way, they refashion landscapes, fertilise the grasslands essential for countless herbivores and help sequester carbon by spreading seeds.
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There is a major scientific gap of animal welfare studies focusing on captive lions housed in commercial farms in South Africa.
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Forest elephant extinction would exacerbate climate change. That’s according to a new study in Nature Geoscience which links feeding by elephants with an increase in the amount of carbon that forests are able to store.
Anecdotes about wild animals seemingly getting drunk after eating rotting fruit are widespread.
Every year in November about 10 million straw-coloured fruit bats gather in Kasanka National Park in Zambia to feast on fruit delicacies such as musuku, mufinsa and mangos.
South African farmers illegally breed tigers and other big cats for sale into the luxury goods and traditional medicine markets.
