They're the largest animals walking the Earth and ... It found large-scale declines in both species of African elephants – the African forest elephant (L. cyclotis) and the larger African ...
But it originally came from infected animals. It’s not yet certain ... in nature is mostly confined to the humid forest regions of west and central Africa. Sustained reporting of cases has ...
Around the same time, bush-meat sales increased in Malabo. As in much of West Africa, bush meat, from wild animals in the forest, particularly from monkeys, is prized as a delicacy, even though it ...
African forest elephants are now critically endangered ... that require very large areas and that move long distances. "Wild animals do not know international borders. "So to turn things around ...
There’s also the forest buffalo, the West Africa savanna ... a virus that’s nearly always fatal to hoofed animals—to Africa, and it caused buffalo numbers to crash across the continent.
Three genera of African rodent, Graphiurus (African dormice), Cricetomys (giant pouched rat) and Funisciurus (African striped squirrel), have been named as likely reservoirs of the mpox virus.