The iconic hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) isn’t known for keeping its mouth shut. The giant semiaquatic mammals make a “wheeze honk” with members of their social group that can be heard more than 1 kilometer away.
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The iconic hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) isn’t known for keeping its mouth shut. The giant semiaquatic mammals make a “wheeze honk” with members of their social group that can be heard more than 1 kilometer away.





Africa is home to many iconic national parks and marine reserves, such as Virunga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niokolo-Koba in Senegal, Kruger National Park in South Africa and Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. Many of them were established during the colonial era, and nearly half are still managed by government agencies.
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The sands of the Kalahari dunes are thick and soft – murder on the calves of the uninitiated – especially after a day spent following meerkats, feeling ungainly in their light, scampering presence.
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The South African game farming and hunting industry continues to demonstrate remarkable resilience as the 2026 winter hunting season reaches its peak.
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The report, released on Thursday, adds new and, in some ways, iconoclastic elements to the narrative around the illegal trade in rhino horn, which remains a lucrative criminal enterprise to the peril of the pachyderms.
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If you think about “unravelling the mysteries of the universe”, you probably think of physics: astronomers peering through telescopes at distant galaxies, or experimenters smashing particles to smithereens at the Large Hadron Collider.
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