African elephants range throughout the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa and the rainforests of Central and West Africa. The ...

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

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The Topeka Zoo & Conservation Center announced Saturday, May 16, that Tembo, its 56-year-old African elephant, was humanely ...

According to a new study published on Monday, June 10, African elephants refer to one another with "individually specific calls" Gabrielle Rockson is a Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in ...

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

Central California’s Fresno Chaffee Zoo has welcomed a new African elephant to its herd, officials announced this weekend. The zoo said Saturday that visitors will be able see the bull named Mabu on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this undated photo, an African elephant matriarch leads her calf away from danger in northern Kenya. A new study in Nature ...

Researchers found elephants help sustain a hidden network of insects, with their loss triggering biodiversity declines across ecosystems.

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 ...

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An extinct species of giant elephant that used to roam across much of Europe and Asia was more closely related to modern African forest elephants than forest elephants are to modern African bush ...