A zebra that ran to the end: why Peter Beard’s unflinching photography of African wildlife still haunts us 60 years on

Beard arrived in East Africa in the late 1950s, a Yale-educated American with a restless, voracious intelligence. He'd read ...
Forbes

In 1883, A Rare, Horse-Like Creature Went Extinct — Here Are The Only 5 Photos Of It (Explained By A Biologist)

Few people know that the Zebra had a close relative, native to South Africa, that went extinct in the late 1800s. Here’s its story. Countless species have come and gone in the short history of life on ...
FOX 5 Atlanta

Meet Imara: Female zebra joins Zoo Atlanta’s African Savanna

ATLANTA - Zoo Atlanta just announced the newest addition to its animal kingdom. Meet Imara, the 2-year-old female, plains zebra. Imara is Swahili for "solid" and "strong." She's new to the city and ...
Indiatimes

Meet the okapi: Africa’s mysterious animal with zebra legs and a giraffe’s DNA

The okapi is one of the rainforest’s most mysterious mammals. At first glance, it looks like someone stitched together a zebra and a giraffe. Its hind legs have striking white stripes, its face is ...
Gizmodo

Drought Is Killing Zebras, Elephants, and Wildebeest in East Africa

More than one thousand of some of Kenya’s most endangered animals have died this year because of a devastating drought gripping the region. A report released Friday from Kenya’s Ministry of Tourism, ...
Local 12 WKRC Cincinnati

Zoo celebrates birth of Grévy's zebra foal, most-threatened zebra species on Earth

WHIPSNADE, England (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A zoo celebrated the birth of a Grévy's zebra foal, the most-threatened zebra species on Earth. Zinabi was born at Whipsnade Zoo in England to mom, Henna, ...
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Where to Spot Africa’s 8 Must-See Safari Animals

Africa is home to some of the most diverse and captivating wildlife on Earth. Sweeping savannas, lush wetlands, and rugged deserts provide the backdrop for encounters with animals found nowhere else.