If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

Horns are not only different from tusks, but they’re different from antlers in that they’re not shed and grow back. The ...

The largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape. Using seasonal cues and their ... elephants in Africa are being slaughtered for their ivory tusks at rates that are causing ...

DESCRIPTION: Savannah elephants are the larger of the two African elephant species. They also have thicker, more curved tusks, more triangulated ears ... Elephants have the longest gestation period of ...

Last week, Sri Lanka Customs uncovered a consignment of 359 African elephant tusks concealed in a container on a ship sailing from Kenya to Dubai. Weighing 1.5 tonnes, the haul is the largest ever of ...

The African elephant is the largest land mammal ... Both males and females use their ivory tusks to dig for food whilst foraging for a diet of grasses, roots, fruit and bark, males however ...