Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and ...

When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...

Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential ... made it a prized exotic good throughout the world. An expansive African ivory trade flourished in the 15th through 19th century, but ...

The South African National Parks (SANParks) has confirmed that a tourist has been trampled to death by an elephant in the ...

"The elephant tusks, which weigh thirty kilos ... AllAfrica is a voice of, by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 400 news and information items daily from over 110 African ...

elephants in Africa are being slaughtered for their ivory tusks at rates that are causing severe population declines across the continent. The illicit trade in ivory continues to rise due to flaws in ...

There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions and very marked physical differences: A 2004 expedition to Ghana studied a population of elephants in the transition zone between ...

DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species. They also have straighter, thinner tusks, more rounded ears and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant species ...

The African elephant is the largest land mammal ... Both males and females use their ivory tusks to dig for food whilst foraging for a diet of grasses, roots, fruit and bark, males however ...

Africa: The second-driest inhabited continent ... males also use these tusks when battling each other. However, elephant tusks are made of ivory, a material, which is valuable in some cultures.

That census estimated a third of Africa's elephants had been killed ... border and he discovered a string of elephant carcasses with their tusks removed for the first time. But these latest ...

The last elephant in South Africa’s national zoo has been released ... with thousands of them illegally killed each year for their tusks. They also face habitat loss due to expanding human ...