Pointing at a calf lying motionless in a green field in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, farmer Igsahn Felix let out a ...

Meat consumption across Africa is shaped by a complex mix of culture, religion, income levels, and rapid population ...

Cattle in the pen, at Karan Beef the country's largest red meat producers, in Heidelberg, south of Johannesburg, South Africa ...

Cows are highly intelligent and deeply sentient and emotional beings with distinct individual personalities, and have been observed using tools. 1 Every individual has a unique personality, and it’s ...

Cattle in the pen, at Karan Beef the country's largest red meat producers, in Heidelberg, south of Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026.

Lions, Africa’s largest predators, are a near-universal source of fear for the continent’s wildlife. But in Kenya, it’s the ...

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A Foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Eastern Cape is killing cattle, forcing quarantines and hitting farmers’ incomes.

The government has leased a large piece of land in Tororo District that previously housed offices of the National Livestock Resources Research Institute to the newly established Africa Tech University ...

A new African species is the closest known magic mushroom relative, reshaping the evolutionary history of Psilocybe cubensis.

The recent discovery of a fossil in northeastern Ethiopia is rewriting understanding of early human evolution. A study in Nature 1 reveals that the partial mandible attributed to Paranthropus is dated ...

HEIDELBERG, South Africa (AP) — South Africa embarked on a mass vaccination of cattle on Friday to stem an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that threatens to disrupt meat, dairy and livestock ...