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

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

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 ...

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 ...

As elephant populations expand into new territories, conservationists are working to balance the species’ success with the ...

World Elephant Day, observed annually on August 12, highlights the urgent need to protect these keystone species. Initiated ...

The clock is ticking to save Central Africa's forest elephants. Populations of the elusive elephants have plunged by around 80 percent inside one of the region's most important nature preserves ...

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

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.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Poachers killed an estimated 100,000 elephants across Africa between 2010 and 2012, a huge spike in the continent’s death rate of the world’s largest mammals because of ...

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 ...