In fact, they even remember specific human ethnicities based on past experiences. This new research suggests that elephants ...

A deadly bacterium has been found in the bodies of six African savanna elephants that mysteriously died off in Zimbabwe in 2020. At the time, the carcasses of 35 African elephants (Loxodonta ...

Elephant trunks, more sci-fi face-tentacle than ho-hum mammal nose, are getting new scrutiny as researchers explore how the wrinkles grow.

Of the two species of African elephants, forest elephants are both smaller and more rare than their cousins, African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana). Scientists used to think both animals ...

An elephant never forgets, as the saying goes. In fact, there is evidence that proboscideans still remember the waterholes ...

African forest elephants are now critically endangered, an update from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) reveals. Savanna elephants are also endangered. And "declines ...

The forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of two living African elephant species, the other being the savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). Historically, forest elephants thrived in the dense ...

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species: savanna elephants and forest elephants. The reclassification — part of an update to IUCN’s Red List of ...

A new approach to obtaining DNA from elephant dung is faster, cheaper and more comprehensive than previous methods, researchers report. Pictured: African savanna elephants in Addo Elephant ...

In a 2019 paper, a group of ecologists examined two forests in the Congo Basin rainforest: one with a population of forest elephants—a smaller, elusive cousin of the African-savanna elephant ...

Even for a conservation biologist numbed to bad news about nature, the biennial Living Planet report from the World Wildlife ...

The video starts with Travers discussing Mak's massive tusks, which must not be all that interesting to Mak because the ...