Across the corral, a young elephant ambled into view, head bobbing, trunk curling, ears flapping, trundling along as fast as its tree-trunk legs could carry it. Another followed, then a steady stream, ...

If you were a kid of a certain era obsessed with adventures in far-flung lands, nothing thrilled like the 19th-century Western exploration of Africa. Burton, Grant and Speke embarking from Zanzibar to ...

Elephants are considered a sacred totem by many in northwestern Zimbabwe, but they also frequently raid villagers’ crops near ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

Strangefoot, the Knysna Forest’s last wild elephant, continues to walk alone while a privately funded plan to reintroduce ...

In Limpopo, a herd of seven tame elephants has advanced the cause of science like few others have done. The latest finding is ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as ...

Africa is the last stand for wildlife. That is how Peter and Corie Knights describe the continent they have devoted their ...

FRANCIOTTI EXPLAINS. IT WAS REALLY GREAT TO SEE THE IMPORTANCE IN THE WILD AND THE IMPORTANCE AND THE PARALLELS THAT WE SEE IN OUR ELEPHANTS HERE. STAFF AT THE MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE ARE LEARNING ...

Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August, Namibia ...

African elephant herds have faced poaching for decades, but a new wave of poaching has placed them on the edge of extinction, according to a study published Tuesday. The study was published in the ...