Doubilet and I timed our arrival to coincide with the front-runners of the sardine migration ... tops of sea bamboo and watched penguins from one of South Africa's few mainland breeding colonies ...

Four critically endangered African penguin chicks hatched at Mystic Aquarium in early January, the aquarium announced ...

In the wild, they are found off the coast of South Africa. They like warm weather between 40 and 70 degrees. Only five of the 19 species of penguins live in colder climates. Tanganyika Wildlife ...

Without immediate government action, the African Penguin, an iconic symbol of South Africa, could vanish from the wild by ...

The source of an oil pollution incident which left 19 underweight African penguins oiled between Hout Bay and Kommetjie last ...

Mass migration — as observed in the example of Zimbabweans coming to South Africa over the past 20 years — ultimately only "contributes to the stagnation" of entire nations and their economies ...

One theory is that there were waves of migration ... spoken in West Africa. There are some 450 known languages in the Bantu family from Gikuyu in the north to Setswana in the south.

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