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Sérgio Pitamitz

Given that the Masai is one of the largest subspecies of giraffes, they’re the “quintessential” animal you likely think of when you think giraffes.

An aerial view of plains zebras (Equus quagga) walking in a flood plain in Okavango Delta, Botswana.

Advancements in artificial intelligence have led to the development of computer programmes that can analyse thousands of photos to identify just how many individual animals are represented in the set of images. Zebras are one such animal that’s been surveyed this way.

The ability of computers to automatically identify individual giraffes from their distinct coat patterns provides scientists with an affordable and efficient way to track population numbers.

A Nile crocodile attacks a wildebeest as it crosses Kenya's Mara River.

Researchers analysing giraffe spot patterns found that mothers passed on traits such as roundness and tortuousness (the outline along the edge of a spot) to their offspring.

It seems that many of the recently killed elephants recently had been targeted by poachers as they approached watering holes, says Mike Chase, of Elephants Without Borders.

An aerial view of plains zebras (Equus quagga) walking in a flood plain in Okavango Delta, Botswana.

A lion drinks from a watering hole on Chief’s Island, in the Okavango Delta’s Moremi Game Reserve.

Lilac-breasted roller, Okavango Delta, Botswana.