By Spoorthy Raman For the first time in six years, an elephant was seen in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park. Grainy black-and-white footage shows Ousmane, a bull 35 to 40 years old named after a ...

The elephant population in Kruger has drastically risen in the last century. Park managers must now contend with an over-abundance of intelligent, endangered, ecosystem engineers.

A desert elephant family in the Namib Desert, Namibia. These elephants are not a genetically distinct species but are instead African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana) that have adapted to the ...

What do a wildlife conservationist, a herd of trained elephants, a jazz composer and an architect have in common? In the ...

Elephant trunks, more sci-fi face-tentacle than ho-hum mammal nose, ... For instance, newborns averaged 87, while the three older African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) ...

Elephants are typically gray, but this small calf, which belongs to the genus Loxodonta, has pink skin and fair hair. (Image credit: Theo Potgieter) The condition causes poor eyesight.The lack of ...

Elephants are gentle creatures that captivate our hearts and imaginations. There are three elephant species on the Earth today—African savanna elephants, African forest elephants, and Asian ...

The team examined four Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) brains and four African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) brains, and they found that about half of elephants’ facial neurons are ...

A rare elephant sighting in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park — the first in six years — is renewing hope for the species' survival.