What is the African elephant? African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their Asian cousins and can be identified by their larger ears that look somewhat ...

The three elephants at Roger Williams Park Zoo will be moved to an elephant sanctuary in Tennessee in late 2027.

A new study reveals that sustained droughts in Botswana push African elephants towards human communities, increasing the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.

If drought in an area persists longer, elephants move closer to areas near human settlements. This is the finding of research by biologist Irene Bouwman of Radboud University. During short-term ...

There are around 415,000 African elephants left in the world. Their numbers have declined sharply, primarily due to poaching ...

Across the African continent, elephant populations have largely declined over the past several decades, but some areas show hopeful signs of recovery, according to a new study. Researchers have ...

Alice, Ginny and Kate, the Roger Williams Park Zoo's beloved African elephant trio, will be moving down south next year.

University of Queensland researchers have found African elephants use their acute sense of smell as a form of communication. Professor Louw Hoffman from UQ's Queensland Alliance of Agriculture and ...

A lower ranking male gives a ‘trunk-to-mouth’ salute to an older, higher-ranking individual. This greeting behavior is a very important ritual that serves to reinforce relationships between bonded ...

Simunye, an African elephant at the Sedgwick County Zoo, is in the 11th month of her pregnancy and is expected to give birth ...