Donkeys are a common sight in northern Namibia – what colonial history has to do with it

Donkeys entered Namibia’s central north relatively late, and only became common in the 1920s and 1930s. Their presence across ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Penguins That Thrive—and the Ones Left Behind—as Antarctica Warms

A new decade-long study tracked 37 penguin colonies and found that the birds are breeding earlier. The shift marks one way ...
The Queen Zone on MSN

Why zebras resisted domestication despite human effort

After centuries of sustained effort, zebras remain evidence that domestication depends less on human ambition than on ...