Have you ever seen anyone bite into a whole hardboiled egg – but with the shell still on? Or feed titbits between his lips to a tame giraffe so a large tongue envelops his face? Or sport a wound in ...

Alan Root, a wildlife filmmaker who splashed through crocodile-infested rivers, piloted hot-air balloons over stampeding wildebeests and lost a “Coke bottle”-size chunk of his calf to an angry ...

Kenyans have been immersed in an endless election farce, the death of the man who exposed the wildebeest migration as a global phenomenon went unnoticed. Alan Root died on August 26 aged 80. Brain ...

In August last year, Alan Root, arguably one of Kenya’s renowned filmmakers, died. Among his well known works was his 1969 documentary of the underwater lives of hippos, crocodiles, turtles and water ...

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