African elephants range throughout the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa and the rainforests of Central and West Africa. The ...

In 2017, when Vincent Deblauwe joined the Cameroon-based Congo Basin Institute (CBI) to study African ebony (Diospyros ...

Tuesday is World Elephant Day. There are three species of elephants: the African savanna or bush elephant, the African forest ...

National Geographic announces it's acquired "Ghost Elephants," written, directed and narrated by Werner Herzog, who just received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award at the Venice ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.

A viral video from Africa shows an elephant reacting with intense emotion after finding the skull of another elephant, sparking conversations about their intelligence and ability to grieve.

Drought has led to the death of at least 100 elephants in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park. Authorities warn of a potential crisis as forecasts predict further scarcity of rain.

Videos show how African elephants may be the first nonhuman species to use vocal name-like identifiers for each other, suggesting "the capacity for some degree of symbolic thought," researchers said.

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 ...