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 ...

If you were a kid of a certain era obsessed with adventures in far-flung lands, nothing thrilled like the 19th-century Western exploration of Africa. Burton, Grant and Speke embarking from Zanzibar to ...

African elephants create low rumbles that travel through the earth, letting other elephants detect messages through vibrations.

Across the African continent, elephant populations have largely declined over the past several decades, but some areas show hopeful signs of recovery, according to a new study. Researchers have ...

FRANCIOTTI EXPLAINS. IT WAS REALLY GREAT TO SEE THE IMPORTANCE IN THE WILD AND THE IMPORTANCE AND THE PARALLELS THAT WE SEE IN OUR ELEPHANTS HERE. STAFF AT THE MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE ARE LEARNING ...

(Reuters) - African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that ...

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

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – Standing before a pile of charred elephant ivory as dusk covered the surrounding savannah, Christian, Muslim and Hindu religious leaders grasped hands and prayed. Let religion, ...

KAMPALA, Uganda, Feb. 28 -- South African wildlife officials on Wednesday proposed new elephant management rules that would allow burgeoning populations to be culled, a practice banned since 1994 as ...

Elephants experience all of the same emotions as we human beings, and they’re not bashful about expressing these feelings. Over the course of just a few hours, elephants will clearly demonstrate ...