Wildfile

Every visitor to the African bush wants to see an elephant. Alongside their intelligence, intense social ties, vulnerability to...

For many wildlife lovers, seeing wild chimpanzees is a dream. But what is the experience actually like? Kush Patel...

‘Seriously?’ This – or similar – is the standard response when guides inform guests that a rock hyrax’s closest relative...

Seeing a big cat in the wild is top of many people’s bucket list on safari. But why? William...

The Namib Desert harbours some extraordinary creatures that have developed fascinating adaptations to cope with the challenges of desert...

Some accelerate to unexpected speeds; others survive months without drinking; all are beautiful to watch. From the elusive hirola...

A giraffe stands stock still. Tall and statuesque, its long neck and limbs are completely motionless. And yet somehow...

From January to June at least half a million antelopes converge on a vast savannah east of the White...

Wow! Look at that! Goooorgeous! If there’s one bird guaranteed to get even the most bird-blind of safari-goers reaching...

OK, so the common eland (Taurotragus oryx) is just an antelope. But it’s a biggie. With bulls standing some...

Devotees of death; connoisseurs of carnage: vultures are surely the most confirmed carnivores of the bird world. With eyesight...

Walking on water is not as hard as you might imagine, as long as you have the right feet for...

Sometimes, watching African wildlife leaves you conflicted. My first sighting of a freckled nightjar is a case in point. As...

As awe-inspiring in reality as in myth, eagles dominate African skies. Mike Unwin focuses on the remarkable adaptations of...

Dr Kim Young-Overton, Cheetah Program Director for Panthera, the global wild cat conservation organisation, tells Travel Africa...

Is it a bird or is it a bin liner? Has somebody lost their umbrella? What is that strange black object flapping...

You know that post-Christmas lunch stupor – slumped in an armchair, feeling as though you’ve swallowed a whole turkey? Well,...

Say ‘African mammal’ and most people will immediately envisage elephants, lions and other celebrated beasts on terra firma. But...

Nick Dall sets out in South Africa’s Mountain Zebra National Park to search for the world’s fastest feline, and...

Shock! horror! Giant eagle swoops down and snatches up small child in its talons. This sensational story runs, in one...