Kaikai shows the keepers she can keep up with the bigger babies by climbing up onto a rock to give herself a few extra inches ...

African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) were only recognized as a species separate from the African savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana) in 2021. Now, new evidence and survey techniques have ...

Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

A new report shows an increase in estimated forest elephant numbers, but this is a function of better surveying, and the ...

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, as ...

Since being collared in Zambia two years ago, a young bull elephant known to researchers as Z16 has walked nearly 12,000 ...

LIWONDE NATIONAL PARK, Malawi -- Half a dozen African elephants lay strewn on a riverside plain in Malawi, immobilized by darts fired from a helicopter in a massive project to move 500 elephants, by ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

Born into an aristocratic British family, he turned his empathy and knowledge of the world’s largest land mammals to the ...

Hamilton, the zoologist who dedicated his life to saving Africa’s elephants from systematic slaughter—despite being nearly ...

People have had a devastating impact on African elephant and rhino numbers, but in parts of Africa we’re helping these amazing animals to recover People have had a devastating impact on African ...

Veterinarians and researchers gathered in Fort Worth this week for a summit on a stealthy killer that strikes mostly young ...