Using gestures is part of communication and language and can be found across the animal world, from fish to apes and birds.

Local leaders at Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area are working to become financially self-sufficient and continue protecting land and wildlife independently, following the abrupt cut of ...

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 ...

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

The biggest animals are plant eaters, not just in the dinosaur age but in our age too. The biggest land animal is the African elephant, Loxodonta africana, followed by the Asian elephant, the ...

African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Amboseli National Park, Kenya, appear to have names for each other. (Image credit: Getty Images/Martin Harvey) Name a famous elephant. Babar, perhaps? Or ...

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

It is titled "Savanna elephant 'Loxodonta africana' in Kruger National Park, South Africa." There is no lioness or cub in the image.

Now, video footage and photographic records show that as elephant numbers plummeted, the proportion of tuskless female African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) rose from about 18 percent to ...

To expand our understanding of personality traits in wild elephants, researchers observed the behavior of 34 male African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Etosha National Park in Namibia ...