More than 30 million tourists visit Africa every year ... Although this cat mainly feeds on small birds and rodents, they're capable of taking down animals as large as antelopes.

Africa, south of the Sahara, is home to the richest diversity of animal life on the planet ... They stand nearly five feet at the shoulder, live in small family groups or herds, are sociable ...

As in much of West Africa, bush meat, from wild animals in the forest ... PHOTOGRAPH BY Joel Sartore Finally we spotted a small troop of drills below us on the far side of a river feeding in ...

The national animal of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the okapi. An endangered species, it is a symbol of pride for the country ...

The opposite is also true. In the 19th century, European cattle brought rinderpest—a virus that’s nearly always fatal to hoofed animals—to Africa, and it caused buffalo numbers to crash ...