The forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of two living African elephant species, the other being the savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). Historically, forest elephants thrived in the dense ...

1994 - only since this year have we been able to see their natural migration routes 22 months - gestation period of the African Elephant "Musth" is the testosterone-fuelled frenzy that prompts ...

The largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape. Using seasonal cues and their long-term memories, these hulking creatures travel vast distances in close-knit herds to find ...

The African elephant is the largest land mammal, growing up to 13ft (4m) at shoulder height and weighing around 6350kg (14000lbs). Living up to 70 years elephants are famous for their wisdom and ...

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DESCRIPTION: Savannah elephants are the larger of the two African elephant species. They also have thicker, more curved tusks, more triangulated ears, and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant ...

The number of African elephants in the wild is declining by an alarming eight per cent a year. But Zimbabwe says it has too many — an estimated 86,000 of them — and that they’ve become a ...

Elephants have long captured human imagination in art and culture, and scientists have long sought to understand them. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) study African ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The intricate web of cracks and crevices that gives African elephants their distinctive look is, in fact, an essential ...

And scientists are using these images to count African elephants from space. The pictures come from an Earth-observation satellite orbiting 600km (372 miles) above the planet's surface.

African savannah elephants are an endangered species so conservationists say any threat to their survival is worrying A type of bacterium never seen before in wild elephants has been found in the ...

A Herd of elephants come down to drink at a waterholeFilmed ... to show what it is like to experience seeing wild animals on an African safari. Nature Documentaries are often highly edited to ...