Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and ...

Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

Elephants don’t have floppy sun hats, battery-powered misting fans or ice-cold popsicles to help keep them cool on a hot day. The animals have a lot of mass compared with their skin’s surface area and ...

With the temperature peaking at 35 degrees Celsius, so the elephants were desperate to cool down, playing in the muddy waters ...

Populations of the African forest and savanna elephant have declined sharply. The populations of Africa's elephants are now in more danger than they ever have been. The African forest elephant is now ...

Many key differences separate African elephant from Asian elephants. Not only are they found in completely separate parts of the world, but they live in different habitats as well. The African ...

LIWONDE NATIONAL PARK, Malawi -- Half a dozen African elephants lay strewn on a riverside plain in Malawi, immobilized by darts fired from a helicopter in a massive project to move 500 elephants, by ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...