Affected by: Illegal wildlife trade , Habitat loss and fragmentation , Human-elephant conflict African elephants are the world's largest land mammals, with males, on average, reaching up to 3m in ...

"This shows how much awareness has grown." Rescuers respond after baby elephant is found in concerning predicament: 'Never ...

One of Africa’s last remaining “Super Tuskers” has passed away. Officials from the Amboseli National Park reported that Craig, a longtime resident of the protected area in southern Kenya, died of ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as ...

Understanding the Rise, Decline, and Survival of African Elephants These gentle giants are not only powerful in size but also ...

The genetic analysis detected 367 different plant species across the samples. More remarkably, individual elephants showed ...

Male elephants have distinct characters, and certain individuals within the society are influential and can have a positive psychological impact on the group, according to new research. The study also ...

Killing of elephants driven by the illegal ivory trade has reached crisis levels in Africa, new information released today says. Across Africa elephants are being driven into decline due to poaching ...

An elephant was captured in video attacking a safari vehicle in South Africa, and several commenters were quick to blame ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Rural farming communities on the border between the southern African countries of Malawi and Zambia are seeking damages and threatening to sue an international animal ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...