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 ...

There are around 415,000 African elephants left in the world. Their numbers have declined sharply, primarily due to poaching and habitat loss. In fact, what are believed to be the last three elephants ...

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

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

With an electrode adhered to one fan-shaped ear, another on the back of the neck and a ground wire at its hip, an African elephant munches on a snack as it is presented with a sound, over and over ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Steve Stringer Photography/Moment/Getty Images) Which footprint is bigger? An elephant's or a human's? It depends on how you ...

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

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 ...