More than 145,000 African forest elephants roam the rainforests of Africa, according to a recent population assessment.

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 ...

One of Africa’s last remaining “Super Tuskers” has passed away. Officials from the Amboseli National Park reported that Craig ...

African elephant populations are sometimes thought to differ only by the location of the animals, but, evolutionarily speaking, forest and savannah elephants are as separate genetically as Asian ...

(Reuters) - African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that ...

What’s in a name? People use unique names to address each other, but we’re one of only a handful of animal species known to do that, including bottlenose dolphins. Finding more animals with names and ...

It?s time for everyone in Baltimore to learn what life is like for a female African elephant. Why, you ask? Because Dolly and Anna, the two African elephants at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, will be ...

Elephants are among the most fascinating and majestic animals on Earth which are known for their enormous size, intelligence and strong social bonds, they have captured human curiosity for centuries.

African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...

During the civil war in Mozambique, armies hunted African elephants to near extinction to collect ivory tusks. A study shows that the proportion of tuskless animals born during and after the war rose ...