A pattern emerged. African herbivores were simply too aggressive for human control. Elsewhere in the world, mammals evolved in isolation from human interference — after all, man only lived ...

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

Total herbivore biomass patterns were estimated for sub-Saharan Africa based on models for each of 92 African herbivore species. [Inset: Klipspringer occur widely across the continent, despite ...

Herds of impala, wildebeest, kudu and other large herbivores are in decline across sub-Saharan Africa, in part due to rising ...

In this new effort, the research team tested this theory by analyzing fossilized teeth of hominins in South Africa approximately ... closely matched those of herbivores. The researchers also ...

"Understanding where herbivores are distributed is important ... The researchers located hotspots of dung production in central Africa, northern and eastern Australia, the Eurasian grasslands ...