African elephants (Loxodonta Africana) live in the savannas, rainforests, woodlands, and scrub forests of central and southern Africa. In these wide-open landscapes, long-distance communication is a ...

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 ...

African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...

African savanna elephants communicate more like humans than previously thought, new research shows—opening up new possibilities for elephant cognition. African savanna elephants walk roam the Okavango ...

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The genetic analysis detected 367 different plant species across the samples. More remarkably, individual elephants showed ...

A study found large-scale declines of African elephants in the first continent-wide analysis of population survey data. Over 53 years of surveys, forest elephant populations decreased on average by 90 ...

Wild African elephants may address each other using individualized calls that resemble the personal names used by humans, a new study suggests. While dolphins are known to call one another by ...

Elephants are among the most fascinating and majestic animals on Earth which are known for their enormous size, intelligence and strong social bonds, they have captured human curiosity for centuries.

An elephant takes a drink in the African Grasslands exhibit at the Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium in Omaha. The Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium opens its $73 million, 28-acre African Grasslands exhibit on ...

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