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 ...

A Spanish tourist reportedly has been "trampled to death" by elephants in South Africa after he tried to get close to them to take pictures. The fatal incident involving the 43-year-old man happened ...

The carcasses analyzed were found with tusks intact and showed no signs of injuries, poisoning, or contamination.

Elephant conservation is a major priority in southern Africa, but habitat loss and urbanization mean the far-ranging pachyderms are increasingly restricted to protected areas like game reserves. The ...

A mother bear and her two cubs, who had been drawn to the Flagstaff neighborhood by apple trees, were successfully rescued ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

A young bull elephant in South Africa appears to have invented a game in which he uses his trunk to fling rocks at safari ...

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 ...

African savanna elephants weigh nearly twice as much as their forest counterparts, yet many have considered them merely different populations of the same species. But new genetic evidence finally puts ...

If you were a kid of a certain era obsessed with adventures in far-flung lands, nothing thrilled like the 19th-century Western exploration of Africa. Burton, Grant and Speke embarking from Zanzibar to ...

African elephant herds have faced poaching for decades, but a new wave of poaching has placed them on the edge of extinction, according to a study published Tuesday. The study was published in the ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Africa's rare forest elephants which play a key role in replenishing the central African rainforests will need almost a century to recover from an onslaught by ivory poachers ...