A new assessment of African Forest Elephants reveals an estimated 135,690 individuals1, with an additional 7,728 to 10,990 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

The species of elephant, important in helping rainforests to regenerate, is notoriously hard to assess since they are spread across remote, dense jungles in 22 African countries.

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African Savanna Elephants are the largest living land animals. Henry, shot in Angola in 1955, weighed 24,000 pounds. Henry is displayed at the Smithsonian Museum since 1959. Largest Elephant in the ...

DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate -- and higher -- population estimate ...

Scientists say there are thousands more African forest elephants than they previously thought thanks to a new counting ...

For more than 50 years, the mouse-size Somali sengi was thought to be a lost species. Turns out, it wasn't. Researchers recently spotted the Somali sengi, a kind of elephant shrew, not in Somalia — ...