By Spoorthy Raman For the first time in six years, an elephant was seen in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park. Grainy black ...

Small bag of stray hair samples to be kept in the elephant "odds and ends" case in pod 2. The location of this oversized case is: Record Last Modified 27 Jun 2024 Specimen Count 1 Collection Date 26 ...

Europe isn’t known for its elephants. At least, the three species of elephant that traverse Earth today — the African elephants Loxodonta africana and Loxodonta cyclotis and the Asian elephant Elephas ...

In 2023, Will Burrard-Lucas, a U.K.-based photographer who specializes in high-definition camera-trapping, set up cameras at four sites in the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, a 4,000-square ...

The weight of a full NASCAR field — cars and drivers — is roughly equal to about 11 African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) or 24 African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclones). Rafi ...

It’s estimated that Zimbabwe is home to nearly 100,000 African elephants (Loxodonta species), but speaking in parliament on August 11, the country’s environment minister Sithembiso Nyoni said ...

Loxodonta remained there, while Mammuthus moved to Eurasia, and the Elephas arrived in Asia. It is the Elephas’ direct descendant that we have today in the form of the Asian elephant.

And—perhaps unsurprisingly, given its wide-open habitat—the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) has evolved to be about twice as big as the forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis).

But in 2021, it was divided into the African savanna (or bush) elephant (Loxodonta africana) and the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis).

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.