The leaves, leathery, paper-thin and earthy like fresh beet root, lend themselves well to eru stew, a staple of the Cameroonian diet. Traditional eru stew begins with simmering a pot full of fresh ...

Locally adapted crop varieties developed and passed down by farmers over generations (scientifically known as landraces) are already disappearing from farms across Africa ...

The urine of chimpanzees contains high levels of alcohol byproduct, most likely because the chimps regularly gorge themselves on fermented fruit, according to a new paper published in the journal ...

New Zealand conservationists have been fighting for years to keep the kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, from disappearing, with intensive conservation efforts.

Aleksey Maro knows far more than he cares to know about the urination habits of chimpanzees. But if you want to measure the alcohol intake of chimps in a Ugandan rain forest, where a breathalyzer is ...