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 ...

Explore a country-by-country look at the population status of the African savanna elephant. The Great Elephant Census surveyed sites throughout the continent in 2014 and 2015. During this period ...

African forest elephants are now critically endangered, an update from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reveals. Savanna elephants are also endangered. And "declines ...

"A surprising finding from our study is that the divergence of African savanna and forest elephants -- which some have argued to be two populations of the same species -- is about as ancient as ...

AT SUNSET THE WILDEBEEST SEEMS DOOMED ... prolonged drought, and conversion of savanna to cropland and real estate. This in itself would be bad news for vultures, but there’s worse.

African elephants call each other and respond to individual names — something that few wild animals do, according to new ...

There are two species of African elephants: the savanna, or bush elephant, and the forest elephant. The Forest subspecies of ...

African forest and savanna elephants have recently been classified as Critically Endangered and Endangered in the IUCN Red List of species, while African lions are classified as Vulnerable.

African elephants are at increasing risk of extinction in the face of poaching for ivory and the loss of their habitat, the latest conservation assessment warns. Forest elephants are now listed as ...

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 ...

Feeding an orphaned baby elephant at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya. In any wildlife-dense African safari, it may be difficult to pick which animal sighting was the most fundamentally ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — When it comes to the niche business of moving elephants, Dr. Amir Khalil and his team might be the best. The Egyptian veterinarian's résumé includes possibly the ...