Researchers in South Africa's Kalahari Desert found a large male cape cobra devouring another smaller male of the same species. Surprised by the thought-to-be-rare event, they decided to investigate ...

Studying the diet of snakes isn’t easy. The animals are elusive, and they don’t feed all that often. It probably doesn’t help that some of them can be deadly to humans. So perhaps it’s not much of a ...

There’s no easy way to say this: Lots of cobras are cannibals. Fortunately, they’re not alone in this taboo behavior. A lot of animals engage in cannibalism. Chimps eat other members of their own ...

South African photographer Hannes Lochner has spent the last two-and-a-half years observing wildlife in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park. His images have now been brought together in a new book, ...

THESE Cape ground squirrels in South Africa’s portion of the Kalahari desert are mobbing a Cape cobra that has strayed too close to their burrow. You might expect this to end badly for the squirrels ...

But there is an animal on Earth that can lull a Cobra into death-like sleep within moments? This animal has no fear of Cobras and immediately pounces on them upon seeing them. They are called Meerkats ...