Get ready to explore one of Africa's most notorious insects: the tsetse fly. These tiny flies may not look like much, but they play a major role in spreading sleeping sickness, aka human African ...

With over 300 national parks across the 52 countries, there is much to consider when planning a wildlife holiday in Africa ...

Ask a runner what they eat before a lengthy race and you’ll probably receive a variety of answers. Some will suggest a light ...

In a rare technique among mammals, the bats burn proteins from blood, rather than carbs or fat, to power their pursuits of ...

A new study sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases in cattle and other animals establishes long-term infections in hosts.

But the ability does appear elsewhere in the animal kingdom – in invertebrate animals, such as blood-feeding Tsetse flies. It ...

Bats fed with cow’s blood. The researchers measured the bats’ metabolism using oxygen intake and carbon dioxide expiration ...

Kenya’s dream of achieving food security will remain elusive due to invasion of vast fertile lands by tsetse flies. Kenya Tsetse and Tryponosomiasis Eradication Council says the national food ...

Get ready to explore one of Africa's most notorious insects: the tsetse fly. These tiny flies may not look like much, but they play a major role in spreading sleeping sickness, aka human African ...