Law enforcements agents are rarely trained to recognise elephant from mammoth ivory. Scientists have found a way to ...

The death of an iconic lion set off global protests to ban killing for fun. Here, Eduardo Gonçalves explores the mindset of ...

African elephant in wild nature of kenya. Image via Depositphotos. One of the most observable hygiene behaviors in African elephants is dust bathing. After a mud bath, elephants frequently cover ...

Across South Africa, removing the the object of poachers’ desire reduced rhino deaths by 78 percent, while it raised the question: What is a rhino without its horns?

African elephant in wild nature of Kenya. Image by huettenhoelscher via Depositphotos. African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth, with males weighing up to 12,000 pounds and standing as ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...

Five years ago, researchers in Africa undertook a mammoth task: counting the continent’s elephants. The Great Elephant Census spanned 18 countries and 295,000 miles, making it the largest, most ...

Large trees in the African bush capture CO2. IBM's predictive AI technology will allow WWF track and protect the African forest elephants who help large trees can grow.

Not all elephants are the same. A new study has found that male African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) develop distinctive personality traits as they age. “We wanted to know whether ...

Asian elephants may weigh 6,000 to 12,000 pounds while African elephants can weigh up to 14,000 pounds. Between their massive size and powerful tusks, an elephant could kill a person with one hit.

One African safari guide recommends keeping a distance of 260 to 330 feet from a herd of elephants. They recommend assessing the temperament of the herd and letting the elephants decide if they want ...

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