One find in particular stuck with him: a pair of teeth—the ... black market ivory was fetching $1,000 a pound in Beijing. That year alone, an estimated 22,000 African elephants were poached.

Another important feature of the African elephant is its tusks, which are elongated incisor teeth. These tusks can grow up to 10 feet long and are used for defense and offense. Unfortunately, their ...

Did you know that despite spending most of their lives in water, hippos can’t actually swim? It may sound odd, but these semi ...

The density of dentin in elephant tusks is why elephant ivory is ... are present in teeth and tusks in elephants. MEP1a, on the other hand, is crucial in the formation of dentin, the core mineral in ...

The forest is silent, but the evidence is not. Hidden deep in the wilderness, a single feather, a shattered tusk, or a drop ...

They’re the least understood of Africa ... like elephants, with an issue like ivory getting everyone’s attention. They aren’t cunning predators. They aren’t hairy with big teeth.

African elephants have matriarchal societies, in which elder females lead families made up of their female relatives and young to water, food and safety. Most of what we know about elephant social ...

In 1879, as Leopold was beginning his exploitation of Congo, he lit upon the idea of using elephants as pack animals to abet the forthcoming mass extraction. But not local African elephants — at ...

AND HELPED FAMILIES MAKE SOME WONDERFUL MEMORIES HERE AT THE ZOO, AND TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT AFRICAN AND ASIAN ELEPHANTS. PUNCH IS AN ASIAN ELEPHANT. MICKEY IS AN AFRICAN ELEPHANT. PUNCH IS ALMOST 55.

(KWCH) - The baby boom continues at the Sedgwick County Zoo. On Tuesday, the zoo announced the birth of another African elephant calf, just four days after the birth of Bomani on April 10.

A female African elephant named Pupy stands in her enclosure at the Ecoparque in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, March 25, 2025, as she is trained for her relocation to a sanctuary in Brazil.

But an official from Greater Kruger National Park in South Africa confirmed to AFP the elephant belonged to its Umbabat Private Nature Reserve. "Telangana government does not have a good ...