A global craze for pet ants has fuelled a booming black market in live queen ants. An African harvester queen can sell for ...

COIMBATORE, India — To better understand Equatorial Guinea’s tropical birds, ornithologists Luke L. Powell and Patricia Rodrigues scan the ground rather than the trees. They are searching for nests of ...

The post Kenya Ant Smuggling Case Exposes Wildlife Trafficking’s Tiny New Targets appeared first on A-Z Animals. The exotic pet market is a lucrative business. If a smuggler is successful, they could ...

Legal or not, the trade in African ants bound for Europe is booming. What do hobbyists find appealing about these insects, and what risks does the trade pose to ecosystems, including power outages?

The African Matabele ants are often injured in fights with termites. Their conspecifics recognize when the wounds become infected and initiate antibiotic treatment. The Matabele ants (Megaponera ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Kenyan ant expert Dino Martins gushes over the red and black insects that have become the center of an international smuggling trade. Martins has been visiting the network of nests of these Giant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pride of lions in a “pristine” savanna in Kenya where they can use whistling-thorn trees as cover to stalk and ambush plains ...

The exotic pet market is a lucrative business. If a smuggler is successful, they could make hundreds, if not thousands, off the illegal pet trade. This is all too tempting for professional animal ...

The story of how tiny ants managed to push lions to kill more African buffalo shows how the arrival of an invasive species can affect multiple animals that seem to have no connections. At an animal ...