What is the African elephant? African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their Asian cousins and can be identified by their larger ears that look somewhat ...

Elephant Valley opens at a time when standards of care for the pachyderms has shifted to prioritizing animal and herd ...

BELA-BELA, South Africa — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. There are three species of elephants: the African savanna or bush ...

An animal protection group is urging the Milwaukee County Zoo to move Belle, its last remaining elephant, to a sanctuary. Zoo officials disagree.

Elephants mourn their dead, comfort grieving herd members, and pass down generations of knowledge, yet poachers slaughter ...

A new baby boy African elephant was welcomed to the Dallas Zoo family just before 12:30 p.m. on July 26, the zoo announced in ...

ATLANTA — Zoo Atlanta announced a new big-eared resident was coming to their African Savanna thanks to a new transfer from the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kan. According to zoo officials, Titan, a ...

Elephants in Rwanda. In the largest genomic study of African elephants to date, an international team of researchers analysed 232 whole genomes from both savanna and forest elephants, collected across ...

1. Does recent research resolve once and for all whether there are two separate species of African elephant? 2. What are the conservation implications if there are two species? We would have to ...

3 million wildebeest accompanied by about 200,000 zebras and 400,000 gazelles covering up to 3,000 kilometers annually in a clockwise cycle that follows seasonal rainfall patterns. The herds travel ...