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Cary Wolinsky and Bob Caputo have a combined 64 years of experience photographing stories for National Geographic ... the national parks in Africa and elsewhere that the animals simply ignore ...

Until recently, the black-billed magpie was lumped with the wide­spread magpie (Pica pica) of Eurasia and northwestern Africa, but all evidence suggests a much closer relationship with the yellow ...

South Africa's bird-of-paradise (Strelitzia reginae) is a member of the banana family. It sports a beautiful flower believed to resemble the avian bird of paradise in flight.

This story was originally published in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic ... shop in South Africa, are boxed for shipment to the American who killed the animal in 2010.