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: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species. They also have straighter, thinner tusks, more rounded ears and differently ... Elephants have the longest gestation ...

Some distinct features are their giant bodies, large ears, long trunks, and tusks. They can consume ... suggests that more than 80% of African elephants have been lost due to this matter in ...

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 ...