A camera-trap study in the mountains of Southern Tanzania has now recorded Africa's least-known and probably rarest carnivore: Jackson's mongoose, known only from a few observations and museum ...

A family of mongooses are forced to stand up and fight off Africa's largest eagle in mid-air as it flies off with one of their friends. Ankia Pusey, a guide in the Mjejane Game Reserve in Kruger ...

Leptospirosis is the world's most common illness transmitted to humans by animals. It's a two-phase disease that begins with flu-like symptoms. If untreated, it can cause meningitis, liver damage, ...

This baboon found itself at the wrong end of an angry mongoose family when he tried to steal their baby. The rare sighting was captured on camera by 57-year-old Charmaine Kritzinger, a wildlife lover ...

Africa’s rarest carnivore, Jackson’s mongoose, was spotted in the mountains of remote southern Tanzania by researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Until now the species has been only ...

Many people visit South Africa's Kruger National Park with hopes of seeing the "big five": lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants, and buffalos. But one of the vast park's most ferocious animals comes in ...

A video making the rounds this week depicts a marsh mongoose tussling with a group of four African lions and, incredibly, coming out unscathed. Guillaumot said it was the first time he’d seen such a ...

The newest public health threat in Africa, scientists have found, is coming from a previously unknown source: the banded mongoose. Leptospirosis, the disease is called. And the banded mongoose carries ...