When I asked Nzito if he knew that people nearby were dying of Ebola, he shook his head. "What's Ebola?" he asked. Cameroon is home to about 40,000 Baka Pygmies, or about one-fifth of Africa's ...

The Aka Pygmies living in the south-west region of the Central African Republic have developed a distinctive vocal musical tradition, which involves a complex type of contrapuntal polyphony based on ...

Scientists found a “pygmy” creature with “leaf”-like toes in rocky a crevice of South Africa and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo from Courtney Hundermark via Conradie ...

This kicks off a one month adventure in Africa! This week we're starting the adventure in Cameroon where we'll be visiting several tribes like the Baka Pygmies and the Mbororo Tribe. Kennedy ...

Pygmy hippos are a small species of hippopotamidae, which is native to the forests and swamps of West Africa. In essence ... As it stands, a maximum of 50 people are permitted to the area ...

Pygmy hippos, native to the forests and swamps of western Africa, are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). A cousin of the much larger common ...