We’ve got your daily fix of adorable baby animal ... 400 elephants died in Botswana We still don’t know why more than 400 elephants died in Botswana How a warming climate threatens forest ...

A weatherproof box and motion-trigger camera help photographer Will Burrard-Lucas capture images of rarely seen African ...

DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species ... Elephants have the longest gestation period of any animal at 22 months, and twinning is rare, though it does ...

Highly intelligent and social animals, they learn most of their behaviors ... Importantly, despite compelling genetic research concluding that two species of African elephants exist — forest elephants ...

For African elephants, currently the largest land animals walking the Earth ... lists the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) as Critically Endangered and the African savanna elephant ...

The continuous loss of habitat also means fewer areas to feed for these gigantic animals. Over the past 30 years, there has been an 80% reduction in fruits for African forest elephants.

A new study has revealed that African ... the Journal of Animal Ecology- could provide crucial information to help protect these iconic animals and their habitats. Being an elephant is no easy ...

There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions ... We hypothesise that ‘intermediate’-looking animals are a result of hybridisation, or the adaptation of some populations of ...

One hundred years ago, Côte d’Ivoire—a nation that takes its name from the once-flourishing ivory trade that ran through its ports—was home to between 3,000 and 5,000 forest elephants. Today, ...

This unit of three sessions imagines life at a typical waterhole in the African ... on animal shapes and simple travelling sequences. Warm up: soaring as vultures with arms outstretched. Elephants ...

The newborn, named Corra, is the first African elephant calf to be born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in seven years, according to a blog post penned by Walt Disney Parks’ director of animal and ...