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 ...

A breathtaking video captures a remarkable close encounter between a wildlife photographer and a majestic African elephant at ...

This heartwarming footage filmed by Nick Dale, a wildlife photographer from the UK, captures a large herd of African elephants, including several playful calves, enjoying a refreshing mud bath in an ...

Across the African continent, elephant populations have largely declined over the past several decades, but some areas show hopeful signs of recovery, according to a new study. Researchers have ...

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 ...

Eastern Cape's elephant population faced near extinction due to agricultural conflicts. Just eleven elephants survived, ...

Wildlife videographer and safari guide Rob the Ranger captures footage of a herd of massive African elephants as they ...

Populations of forest elephants in the epicentre of the ivory poaching crisis have declined by 62 percent in the past decade, according to a report released today by conservationists. The study, which ...

When wild African elephants call out, they might identify each other by name, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. While some other animals possess ...

A study predicts increasing human-elephant conflict in Southern Africa. A growing number of farmers and 290,000 African ...

The grudging release of previously undisclosed mortality data from the Kruger National Park offers a rare glimpse into how ...

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 ...