Wild African savannah elephants in two South African parks used 41 distinct gesture types, built from 32 gesture actions, to ...

BELA-BELA, South Africa (AP) — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. Tell them apart by their ears There are three species of ...

Watching elephants move through the African bush is one of the defining moments of a safari journey. This route visits Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater, the Kalahari in South Africa, Namibia’s Etosha ...

Learn how shrinking habitats are isolating African elephant populations and how restoring connections could help save the species. The largest genomic study of African elephants ever conducted has ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.

Have you ever wondered what the world's largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

The overall African elephant population plummeted by over 20 per cent in the past decade, falling to an estimated 415,000 mainly due to a dramatic surge in ivory poaching. According to the IUCN, ...