"African savanna elephants march in unity, their strength felt across the land." ...

Unbelievable elephant with massive tusks struts through savanna.

The saying “an elephant never forgets” has truth—elephants have excellent long-term memory. They live in matriarchal herds ...

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species: savanna elephants and forest elephants. The reclassification — part of an update to IUCN’s Red List of ...

Anup Shah An elephant family gathers against the backdrop of an approaching storm. As they wander the savanna, elephants are thought to make vocalizations that create seismic waves in the ground.

Explore a country-by-country look at the population status of the African savanna elephant. The Great Elephant Census surveyed sites throughout the continent in 2014 and 2015. During this period ...

The team found that the tusks came from African forest elephants, not African savanna elephants, and from West rather than Central Africa as they had expected. “The isotope analysis determined that ...

The calf, born Feb. 13, joined his mother and other giraffes for a first stroll Monday. Park visitors may spot him as they ride through the Kilimanjaro Safaris attraction at Walt Disney World. He’s ...

"A surprising finding from our study is that the divergence of African savanna and forest elephants -- which some have argued to be two populations of the same species -- is about as ancient as ...

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Ants known to defend certain species of Acacia trees from elephant predation deter the massive herbivores so effectively that they are impacting entire savanna ecosystems, according to a study ...