Friends Matter for Reclusive Creature of African Forest
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Okapi are phantasmagoric creatures that have inspired the work of Dr. Terese Hart, the director of the Wildlife Conservation Society in Congo.
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KITENGELA, Kenya  - A short distance from the slums and skyscrapers of Nairobi, Naanyu Ntirrisa pulls thorn bushes around her Maasai village to keep out marauding lions that have killed a cow and two sheep.
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The African nation's last rain forests are in danger from both agricultural developers and locals who believe its plants hold pharmacological secrets
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A new study shows that climate uncertainty has influenced the evolution of cooperative behavoir in African starlings.
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It doesn't seem to matter to one puffin waddling over to join another of the birds that his chosen companion is a one-legged, wooden decoy. Puffins love company.
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Researchers say elephants can tell whether a human is a friend or foe by their scent and colour of clothing.
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By Tim Johnson  It might have been the primeval forest noises. Or perhaps it was the tree-climbing kangaroos. It also could have been the cassowary, a flightless bird as tall as a grown man.
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Many more species are probably yet to be found in pristine jungle in Indonesia's Papua province, where two mammals believed to be new to science were discovered in June, an Indonesian zoologist and a conservationist said.
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As the men bumped away from camp in the four-wheel-drive pickup, over rutted dirt roads and through tiny streams, the sun revealed open plains around them, dotted with scrawny oak trees. Paul Tyjewski, Paul Royce and their guide, Kal Katzer, began glimpsing exotic wildlife gathering under the trees, using the cover of daybreak to feed before predators arose. Only, in this instance, the animals' instincts had failed them, since the predators were wide-eyed, eager and getting ever closer with their 7mm Remingtons. In one area, skittish kudu, African antelopes with twisting horns rising two feet out of their skulls, hopped from tree to tree. Nearby, aoudads -- massive versions of sheep from the Barbary rocks of North Africa, with horns curving out and back from their skulls -- playfully butted heads. Katzer pointed out ibex, exotic goats with thick, scaly horns.
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NAMALINDE, Malawi  - Maria Semu holds back tears  as she tells how she lost her husband Ngalu to a crocodile --  another victim of growing conflict between man and beast in one  of Africa's poorest countries.
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The dodder seedling doesnÂt rely on dumb luck to find a host. It has a nose for it.
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Aborigine Jackie Huggins remembers when  she was regarded as part of Australia&#39;s native wildlife.
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AMAZULU GAME RESERVE, South Africa  - They are  voracious predators that make scores of kills each night, many  are brilliantly colored and few creatures can match them for  raw agility and prowess.
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Go in the field with biologists studying how lemurs are coping with habitat loss, and meet the unusual creature they encounter that could be a new primate species.
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In a rare discovery of a new species of mammal, zoologists on Thursday said they had identified a shrew-like creature called a grey-faced sengi living in a small community in remote Tanzania.
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Travel: Sue Watt goes in search of endangered cheetah on a volunteer holiday that's a world away from a typical safari
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From a gentles creature, a lesson in ferocious tenacity.