In the Kinshasa Botanical Garden, a troupe of cardboard animals — monkeys, a gorilla, leopards, a giraffe — stand at ...

Roughly 50 hippopotamuses at Africa’s premier nature reserve died from anthrax poisoning, according to park officials.

These were the first steps of “The Herds”, a moving theatre performance made up of cardboard puppet animals that flee from ...

Well, la-di-da! Who knew great apes had such fine tastes? Gorillas in parts of the Congo are occasionally seen scratching at ...

After a century of decreased sightings, reports of a long-necked water monster the size of a hippopotamus are once again rising. What gives?

About 50 hippos have died of anthrax poisoning in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park, the oldest ...

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

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

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 ...

A wildebeest, a gorilla and a giraffe were among the life-size puppets to begin a 20,000-kilometre (12,400-mile) trek across ...

That disease likely killed dozens of people in another part of Congo in 2024. The assumption that the disease originated in a bat is not particularly far-fetched. The WHO has long been concerned about ...