Ghost elephants are “refugees in their own homelands, moving in secret between small patches of habitat,” the Elephant Crisis ...

An elephant not seen in several years was recently captured on camera strolling through a national park in Senegal. This ...

An African forest elephant — nicknamed the "ghost elephant" due to its incredibly infrequent sightings — was spotted in Senegal for the first time in five years earlier this June.

Analysis - Nigeria is one of 37 African countries where elephants are found in the wild. Savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) can be found in the north and forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis ...

The dense tropical forests are home to the African forest elephant. African bush elephants live in 23 countries with the majority located in southern and eastern African countries, such as ...

For millions of years, over a dozen species of proboscideans, the group that includes mammoths, mastodons and elephants, roamed landscapes as varied as Arctic tundra and African savannas. Then ...

The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), also known as the African savanna elephant, is the largest land animal on Earth. A mature male may stand up to 13 feet tall at the shoulder and ...

In just the past century, the number of living African forest elephants has been reduced by 86%. | Photo: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. Originally published on Illumina News Center. Herds of woolly ...

The cyclotis is commonly called the African forest elephant for obvious reasons, and DNA analysis has freed it from being a subspecies of Loxodonta africana, as was long believed. But we will also set ...

Videos show how African elephants may be the first nonhuman species to use vocal name-like identifiers for each other, suggesting "the capacity for some degree of symbolic thought,"; researchers said.