Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.

For decades, ecologists have theorized that the extinction of one important species could set off a chain reaction of losses ...

In the largest genomic mapping of Africa's elephants to date, an international team of researchers shows that elephant history is defined by the ability to move across large distances and exchange ...

Conservationists have sounded the alarm for decades that habitat fragmentation is just as devastating to elephant populations in Africa as poaching. Until recently, those warnings have often been ...

Sdudla, an adult male African savanna elephant, will play an important role in mentoring a younger male elephant named Zuli.

BELA-BELA, South Africa — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. There are three species of elephants: the African savanna or bush ...

FRANCIOTTI EXPLAINS. IT WAS REALLY GREAT TO SEE THE IMPORTANCE IN THE WILD AND THE IMPORTANCE AND THE PARALLELS THAT WE SEE IN OUR ELEPHANTS HERE. STAFF AT THE MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE ARE LEARNING ...

Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Willie Aucamp has announced the publication of South Africa's National Elephant Heritage Strategy in the Government Gazette, paving the way for its ...

While many people are fascinated by nonhuman animals, most do not have the time, money, or opportunity to travel to remote natural habitats where these animals live freely. Instead, zoos relocate ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as ...