Every year, between 1.5 and two million or more wildebeest — along with gazelles and zebra — stampede Lion King-style across the veldt of southern Africa. When dry, cool August descends upon ...

In 1983, during a devastating drought, at least 50,000 wildebeest ... stampede across the flanking hillside, trailing clouds of dust. Something has spooked them, and the zebras, too. The zebra ...

Zebra graze at Serengeti National Park ... and there’s no greater peripatetic existence than that of the white-bearded wildebeest. Come rain or shine, the 1.3 million-strong East African ...

Kenya’s worst drought in 40 years has caused horrendous human suffering and also taken a heavy toll on its wildlife, with the wildebeest and zebra populations among those worst affected. At ...

Or the giant wildebeest? Perhaps most strangely of all ... Africans never domesticate their own species of wild horse, the zebra? Zebra are closely related to the domesticated horse, sharing ...

More than one million wildebeest, alongside zebra, gazelle and elands, journey in a quest to find fresh grass. The documentary, which kicks off Nature’s 41st season on PBS, follows two Maasai ...

The huge number of mouths and hooves in wildebeest herds can help to keep vegetation under control that would otherwise fuel wildfires (Credit: Getty Images) When scientists examined the effect ...

In the year 1898, two big male lions created chaos in Kenya. These lions caused terror among a group of bridge builders camped along the Tsavo River in Kenya. These ...

From this technique analyzing the hair’s DNA, the team identified giraffe, human, oryx, waterbuck, wildebeest and zebra as prey. They also pinpointed hairs that originated from lions.

But only the wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti cross the Mara river into Kenya's Masai Mara. Due to limited source material on African wildlife populations prior to the mid-1800's ...

"We found mitochondrial genetic material from giraffe, human, oryx, waterbuck, wildebeest, and zebra as prey, and also identified hair that came from the lions themselves," said Alida de Flamingh ...

The elephant? Or the giant wildebeest? Perhaps most strangely of all, given the importance of the horse to European history, why did tropical Africans never domesticate their own species of wild horse ...