African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) were only recognized as a species separate from the African savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana) in 2021. Now, new evidence and survey techniques have ...

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

George Wittemyer receives funding from the U.S.A. National Science Foundation and Save the Elephants, a Kenya based non-profit organization. He is a professor at Colorado State University and serves ...

Hamilton, the zoologist who dedicated his life to saving Africa’s elephants from systematic slaughter—despite being nearly ...

Elephant conservation is a major priority in southern Africa, but habitat loss and urbanization mean the far-ranging pachyderms are increasingly restricted to protected areas like game reserves. The ...

A study found large-scale declines of African elephants in the first continent-wide analysis of population survey data. Over 53 years of surveys, forest elephant populations decreased on average by 90 ...

In Botswana, coexisting with the country's 130,000 elephants can be a daily negotiation. For rural families, tending a crop ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — African elephants call each other and respond to individual names — something that few wild animals do, according to new research published Monday. The names are one part of ...

Elephants are the world’s largest land animals. There are lots of different kinds. There’s the African Forest elephant, the African Savannah elephant and the Asian elephant. You can tell them apart by ...

When wild African elephants call out, they might identify each other by name, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution. While some other animals possess ...