A new scientific review has revealed that the loss of experienced elephants—especially matriarchs—cripples the ability of ...

A new study presents evidence of knowledge transfer in elephant societies and systematically reviews how they respond to ...

There are fewer than 1,000 Bornean elephants left in the wild. Logging and palm oil plantations have destroyed their habitat ...

This remarkable photograph above of the critically endangered African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) was captured using a camera trap. The image is included in photographer Will Burrard ...

The saying “an elephant never forgets” has truth—elephants have excellent long-term memory. They live in matriarchal herds ...

The team found that the tusks came from African forest elephants, not African savanna elephants, and from West rather than Central Africa as they had expected. “The isotope analysis determined that ...

Importantly, despite compelling genetic research concluding that two species of African elephants exist — forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) — Africa's ...

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species: savanna elephants and forest elephants. The reclassification — part of an update to IUCN’s Red List of ...

The study looked at 95 peer-reviewed papers documenting the impact of social disruption on elephant populations, spanning African savannah, African forest, and Asian elephants. It revealed that hu ...

There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions and very marked physical differences: A 2004 expedition to Ghana studied a population of elephants in the transition zone between ...