A hush falls over the African savanna as a group of elephants stands quietly around the bones of one of their own. Their ...

Anup Shah An elephant family gathers against the backdrop of an approaching storm. As they wander the savanna, elephants are thought to make vocalizations that create seismic waves in the ground.

A herd of African elephants instinctively formed an "alert circle" to protect the younger elephants at the San Diego Zoo ...

In an article discussing the paper, the authors set out three key recommendations to reverse the downward trends, one of ...

Botswana's elephant population has doubled in recent decades, creating chaos for many who live alongside them.

"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 ...

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 ...

These findings, researchers say, can help conservationists design elephant corridors to connect fragmented habitats. African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana), considered endangered ...

the forest elephant and the savanna elephant. The results were eye opening. African elephants have experienced serious losses in contemporary times (between 1964 and 2016). The average population ...

Savanna elephants are surveyed by spotters in planes. A new study found large-scale declines in African elephants in the first continent-wide analysis of population survey data. Credit ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) as Critically Endangered and the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana ...

This research provides the most comprehensive assessment of trends in the two species of elephants in Africa: the forest elephant and the savanna elephant. The results were eye opening. African ...