More than 30 million tourists visit Africa every year ... share 98 percent of their DNA with humans. Like many wild animals ...

The robin won. The first national animal to be used as a symbol in South Africa was the springbuck (or springbok), proposed in 1906 as a name for the country's rugby team ahead of a tour of Europe.

It’s not yet certain which animals are the natural carriers. But, based on the available evidence, it is thought to be rodents and small mammals mostly found in west and central Africa.

African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana). Scientists used to think both animals were subspecies of a single African elephant. However, a study published in 2010 found that each elephant ...

The national animal ... name all of them. The level of knowledge about them was generally low. This indicates that these symbols can't be effectively used to help build a common South African ...