Elephants have long captured human imagination in art and culture ... in the wild—that’s compared to about 500,000 African elephants in the wild. One issue that our scientists study is human–elephant ...

Franko Khoury/ National Museum of African Art, SI Bearers hoisting elephant tusks. Photograph by Robert Visser c. 1890-1900, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives. National Museum of African Art ...

Museum research has uncovered populations with a mosaic of features. There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions and very marked physical differences: A 2004 expedition to ...