THERE’S SOMETHING in the human psyche that requires us to slay monsters. Werewolves must be shot with silver bullets. Vampires must have wooden stakes driven through their hearts. Witches must be ...

We found the carcasses at 11 in the morning. The Zimbabwean sun had mummified them in the positions of agony in which they died. There were six, a young sable cow and five impala, spaced in a line 200 ...

Guided by the upside-down horns of oryx antelopes, Namibia’s national animal, that had been left to direct guides to the camp ...

A pest to ranchers, a prize to hunters, and a temperamental tank to anything that bothers it, African buffalo roam by the thousands in sub-Saharan Africa. Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies ...

Along with elephants, rhinos, lions and leopards, Cape buffaloes belong to Africa’s Big Five, the special clique of animals ...