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As its name implies, Hippo Pool – which sits near Kruger's southern border – acts as one of the park's premier locales for viewing hippos. In fact, hundreds of these giant, grunting creatures ...

They have large antlers weighing up to 5 kilograms that can be 1.15 meters long. Antlers sometimes have as many as 20 tines ...

Five lions were sprawled out and sunning on rocks alongside Kenya’s Voi River. Hippos wallowed nearby. Elephants drank and ...

Short Wave New discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines — in just under 15 minutes. It's science for everyone, using a lot of creativity and a little humor. Join ...

Colonoscopy prep is complete once your poop is a light yellow with no dark particles ... A number of factors affect how long bowel prep takes and if it's successful: There are a few things you can do ...

(Wombats have buns of steel—and they poop in cubes. Here's why.) “We’re talking about [77 pounds] of pure muscle, about the same as a boxer dog,” says Joanna Bagniewska, a behavioral ...

Rebecca Ramirez (she/her) is the founding producer of NPR's science podcast, Short Wave. It's a meditation in how to be a Swiss Army Knife, in that it involves a little of everything ...

Getting your clinical study designed and built ready for data collection takes A LOT of work and expertise… you’ve got to do all your CRF designs; keep up with protocol changes; add the ...

We have had other brands of binoculars for them, and they do not fit as nicely in their hands ... hide a rainbow-hued "poo" ...

They poop in the water, and baby crocodiles subsist on that excrement until they grow big enough to attack hippo babies. I learned that vervet monkeys like to get into tourists’ vehicles when ...

I have every barnyard animal but a cow,” said Kerwin. “I had a cow. But then I realized, when you have a cow, you're going to have a shovel all the time, because they really do poop a lot…But I got ...