Local leaders at Ethiopia’s largest community conservation area are working to become financially self-sufficient and ...

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

The elephant population in Kruger has drastically risen in the last century. Park managers must now contend with an ...

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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 ...

The biggest land animal is the African elephant, Loxodonta africana, followed by the Asian elephant, the other African elephant species, the white rhinoceros, hippo, gaur, etc.; see .

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

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

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 Dumbo ...

Trunks like a lot of other mammal flesh gets wrinklier with age. For instance, newborns averaged 87, while the three older African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) had accumulated on average ...