Parents of infants, college students during finals season and the White House press corps should stand back in awe. A new champion non-sleeper has been crowned: Loxodonta africana, the African ...

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

African elephants currently are listed as one species under the less-protective “threatened” status. But recent genetic studies indicate that Africa’s elephants actually comprise two separate species ...

Loxodonta Localizer: A Software Tool for Inferring the Provenance of African Elephants and Their Ivory Using Mitochondrial DNA. Journal of Heredity, 2019; DOI: 10.1093/jhered/esz058; ...

The IUCN now lists African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) as critically endangered – the final step before being extinct in the wild – and the African savannah elephant (Loxodonta ...

OUR CAMPAIGN. Importantly, despite compelling genetic research concluding that two species of African elephants exist — forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana ...

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.

Ivindo National Park alone is home to 81 plant and 39 animal threatened species, including the Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), the Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes), the Forest Elephant ...

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