THE third volume of the British Museum catalogue of Ungulates completes the account of the antelopes (saiga, gazelles, oryx group, bushbucks, kudus, elands, etc.) and deals also with prongbucks ...

Description: The tallest land mammal, with a neck as long as 6 feet, the giraffe is also well known for the unique brown and white pattern on its coat (“pelage”) and its lengthy eyelashes and legs.

In 1871, Welsh-American adventurer Henry Morton Stanley succeeded in his well-publicised search for ‘missing’ Scottish missionary/explorer David Livingstone. After their famous encounter in what is ...