A paper published this week in the journal PLoS Biology shows that African elephants ... with the savanna breed standing nearly 3 feet taller than the forest elephants. Based on mitochondrial ...

In the years since, poaching has continued to threaten both species: Savanna elephants declined by 30 percent between 2007 and 2014, while forest elephants declined by 64 percent from 2002 to 2011 ...

African savanna elephants weigh nearly twice as much as their forest counterparts, yet many have considered them merely different populations of the same species. But new genetic evidence finally puts ...

The African Savanna (Bush) elephant is the world's largest land animal – with adult males, or bull elephants, standing up to 3m high and weighing up to 6,000kg on average. Males only reach their full ...

and is sometimes referred to as the "dwarf African elephant," standing at about 8.2 feet high compared with the savanna elephant's 11.5 feet, and weighing about half as much. The forest elephant ...

For the first time in six years, an elephant was seen in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba National Park. Grainy black-and-white footage ...

They're the largest animals walking the Earth and possess a remarkable level of human-like intelligence and emotional awareness. But scientists warn that African elephants – which wander ...

There are three types of elephants: the African forest elephant, the Asian elephant, and the African savanna (or bush ... elephants only 20 minutes to stand up after birth, and they can take ...

A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like calls for each other that resemble human names — a finding that potentially "radically expands the express ...

Titan will be housed in Zoo Atlanta’s $50 million African Savanna, which opened in 2019 and can house up to seven elephants. The outdoor African Savanna has three large water features ...