Electric Jeeps and carbon credits are unlikely to make up for gas-guzzling private flights and building mini towns in the remote savannah. So, what should travellers be looking for?

Not all elephants are the same. A new study has found that male African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) develop distinctive personality traits as they age. “We wanted to know whether ...

COLUMN. Pachyderms seem to take topography into account to avoid steep slopes and minimize their energy expenditure while ...

DESCRIPTION: Savannah elephants are the larger of the two African elephant species. They also have thicker, more curved tusks, more triangulated ears, and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant ...

Importantly, despite compelling genetic research concluding that two species of African elephants exist — forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) — Africa's ...

There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions and very marked physical differences: A 2004 expedition to Ghana studied a population of elephants in the transition zone between ...

Mundi the 41-year-old African savannah elephant, spent 35 years alone at the Mayaguez Zoo in Puerto Rico before the park's closure Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

Rural communities on the border between the African countries of Malawi and Zambia are threatening to sue an international ...

During this webinar, students can paint along with John to create their own savannah masterpiece of the largest land mammal ...

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 ...