An African forest elephant -- nicknamed the "ghost elephant" due to its incredibly infrequent sightings -- was spotted in Senegal for the first time in five years.

African elephants significantly outsize their Asian counterparts, standing as the undisputed largest land animals on Earth. The African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) can reach impressive ...

An African forest elephant — nicknamed the "ghost elephant" due to its incredibly infrequent sightings — was spotted in Senegal for the first time in five years earlier this June.

Ghost elephants are “refugees in their own homelands, moving in secret between small patches of habitat,” the Elephant Crisis Fund explains in a report.

African forest elephants have become so rare in this Senegalese national park that they are simply called “ghosts.” But one beloved elephant took rangers by surprise.

As the World Wildlife Fund points out, the African forest elephant was declared Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 2021.

Today, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species places the African forest elephant as critically endangered and decreasing in population.

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Keywords: African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis), animal trails, savanna-mosaic forest, seminatural lands, human-elephant conflict, land use pattern Citation: Nomoto M and Akomo-Okoue EF (2025) ...