The plan was to hunt antelope, so he rented a skiff, paddled to a nearby East African island, hopped out, and wandered into the woods, when all of a sudden, there it was—a staggeringly enormous, ...
A baobab can hold so much water in its swollen trunk that its shape visibly changes with the rainy season. In Africa’s dry savannah, where the climate can be extremely arid, that ability helps explain ...
Calling something the “tree of life” may conjure up a lush arboreal species with mouth-watering fruit. Yet on the African continent, this moniker is reserved for the baobab tree. Upon first glance, ...