Found in central Africa, as well as parts of East and West Africa. They are generally found in wet places, particularly places like floodplains. In east Africa, the Ugandan Kob and the white eared kob (found in south Sudan and surrounding countries) both join in on migrations that happen in the areas around where they live.
Once found across much of equatorial Africa, it is also extinct in a few countries including the extreme east of the continent, in both Kenya and Tanzania.
Female kobs can live in herds of thousands, while male herds can number in their hundreds, and follow the female herds closely. One of the biggest spectactles of the natural world is the migration across South Sudan, of almost 1 million white eared kob along with various other species. Hopefully, one of these days, the situation in South Sudan will be stable enough for this area to become a tourist hotspot, and lift much of the country out of poverty.
The Ross ice shelf, in Antarctica, has been found to move
- Tim
- December 5, 2024
Great white sharks separated into 3 district populations 200,000 years ago – and have Orca stopped hunting the South African population?
- Tim
- December 4, 2024
These 3 groups do not intermix, and only very seldom, interbreed. These populations are found in the Southern Pacific, Northern Pacific and the North Atlantic and Mediterranean. This naturally means that the great white sharp is far more at risk of extinction, than if all the great white sharks in the worlds oceans could interbreed. …...
Surely, there is a problem when a Southport rioter gets jailed for less time than a Just Stop Oil protester?
- Tim
- December 4, 2024
Rioting and protesting are both activities that many would consider annoying. Yet, they are very different. Rioting, is a totally illegal activity, and the rioter in question punched a police officer in the face – he was given 3 years in prison. The Just Stop Oil protester was involved in a zoom call to talk …...
Plans to turn the Pantanal into a waterway, will destroy this wilderness
- Tim
- December 3, 2024
The Pantanal is an incredibly wilderness, however, the Paraguay river is planned to be turned into a water way and build ports. I have included 2 videos for you to look at (depending on how much time you have). The video above is around 4 minutes, while the below is a full documentary 50 minutes.
Could the recovery of the Goshawk save the red squirrel?
- Tim
- December 3, 2024
European Goshawks were extinct in Britain at the end of the 19th century (and remained rare for over half a century) but in the last 50 years have made an incredible comeback. In the new forest, in the south of England, there are thought to be hundreds of pairs living wild. In Thetford forest in …...
Older trees are more capable of increasing growth and carbon dioxide use than young ones
- Tim
- December 3, 2024
Old growth trees, have the capacity to greatly increase their growing rate, when there is a lot of carbon dioxide in the air. This has been found, in a study by the University of Birmingham. This is important, as in many places around the world, an area of destroyed natural forest, is considered to be …...
Spiders the size of rats are making a comeback in the UK
- Tim
- December 2, 2024
The greater glider, looks like a cross between a koala and a possum, but it is in danger, and if Australia does not change course it may be lost
- Tim
- December 2, 2024
Recognized as an incredibly popular species, with a great deal of conservation effort being put into its survival. The Queensland conservation council is urging the state government is calling for its remaining habitat to be protected, as logging continues. Calls are being made to create a park to protect the species. The Miles government promised …...
As water buffalo return, they are revitalizing the kizilirmak delta – formerlly destroyed by becoming industrial wastelands
- Tim
- December 2, 2024
There are many species around the world which are so important to their habitat, that even a reduction in the population can cause problems – this is one of them. After tadpoles have lost their tails, many will climb onto the hairy back of the water buffalo, getting a ride to other rich feeding areas …...
Dublin zoo has to get breastfeeding women to educate an orangutan
- Tim
- December 1, 2024
A female orangutan, who had failed to bond with either of her first two offspring (and as a result had both died), found 30 volunteer human mothers, to come in to breastfeed their babies in front of the orangutan. The exhibit was shut, so that the mothers could breastfeed topless – allowing Mujur the 19 …...
The livestock lobby is fighting against lab-grown meat this is why we must not let them win
- Tim
- November 24, 2024
Livestock takes up roughly 20% of the worlds land, or around 50% of the worlds agricultural land. Astoundingly, around 1.3 billion people around the world are involved in the livestock industry. The worlds remaining land wilderness, takes up just 25% of the worlds land – should we move toa system of growing meat in labs, …...
How did the wolf disappear from Holland and why is it back
- Tim
- November 23, 2024
The wolf disappeared from Holland around 1870, though their decline was rapid – in 1760 (just over 100 years before) people in Brabant talked of a wolf plague). In 2015, the wolf was first sighted in Holland, and while some people had said that Holland was to densly populated to allow the wolf to return, …...
Badger vaccinating is found to be far more effective than culls
- Tim
- November 22, 2024
The UK has been culling badgers since 2013, and since then over 230,000, yet a recent study has shown that vaccination is far more successful than culling. This trial in Cornwall, found that the rate of bTB in the study area fell to zero. Why is this important? One of the big shames of the …...
A rare whale species observed on Antarctic expedition
- Tim
- November 22, 2024
The beaked whale species are a family of rarely seen whales. Despite there being 22 species of beaked whale (which we know about) they are rarely seen, and some have only been described in recent years. Why are they seen so rarely? because they have a record breaking ability to hold their breath being able …...
Orangutans climb incredibly high – no space for acrophobia
- Tim
- November 21, 2024
Life is hard in the Indonesian rainforest – compared to Africa and South America, there is very little to be found to eat (except in specific areas. As a result, orangutans become solitary, with the only time they are seen together is a mother with young, or a courting couple. Another problem, is demonstrated here …...
On the founding of Kahuzi-Biega National Park, locals were pushed out -they now have the right to return, what will happen
- Tim
- November 18, 2024
Kahuzi-Biega National Park was established in 1937 by the Belgium colonial rulers and then expanded in 1975. It now covers 6000 square km or 2300 square miles. Roughly 13000 Batwa were cleared out of the area to make way for the park (along with other people who had settled more recently).
Arabian leopard still holding on in the middle east
- Tim
- November 13, 2024
There are claimed to be 200 Arabian leopards remaining in the wild (most sources suggest the number is more like 120). This subspecies has suffered a decline in the last 120 years of between 90 and 98% (estimates on population size from the 19th century). This population is spread across 3 countries with Oman and …...
Medicinal use in wild great apes – a new study shows how many
- Tim
- November 12, 2024
It would appear that chimpanzee medicine is quite a complicated field. This is a significant range of conditions that can be treated, though it should also be noted, that this knowledge is likely to be shared in the group, as no one individual will have seen their mother suffer from all these conditions. While gorilla …...
Colorado is looking to move a wolf pack – less than a year after it was reintroduced
- Tim
- November 10, 2024
In 2020, wolf reintroduction into Colorado was agreed by the human population there, while this happened in December of 2023, the nearest wolf population lies around 400 miles north in Wyoming, and this is a distance that is easily covered by wolves. As a result, some wolves have turned up on their own. Around the …...
Colony of red honeybees found in Europe for the first time
- Tim
- November 9, 2024
Bees across much of Europe have not had an easy time of things in the last few decades, and that has been caused by a variety of things, including: pesticides, climate change, disease, climate change, parasites and nutrition deficiency just to name a few. Should this new invader spread, it may well be the last …...