Patna: Being the largest land mammals on the Earth, elephants are often described as nature's great ecosystem engineers. They ...

NAIROBI -- The markets in the Central African Republic offer all of the jungle's delicacies, including monkey, chimpanzee, antelope and, if you have the cash, elephant. Hunters kill the elephants ...

Asian and African elephants, though related, exhibit key differences. African elephants are larger with fan-shaped ears and tusks in both sexes, inhabiting savannas. Asian elephants are smaller ...

African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that documents alarming population ...

Three generations,” Dr. Scott Terrell with Disney’s Animal Kingdom said. Terrell explained African elephants are considered an endangered species and said they do face dangers in the wild.

MOMBASA: Elephants will be extinct in Africa in 25 years if the current poaching rate continues, a global lobby group has warned. African Elephant Coalition (AEC), in a report published on Monday ...

There are currently around 415,000 African elephants in the world (African bush and African forest combined), but there are only approximately 40,000 to 50,000 Asian elephants left.

Mali's elephants, one of just two remaining desert herds in the world, will be gone in three years unless the government does more to protect them, a conservation group said on Thursday.

“African elephants are imperiled due to poaching, habitat loss, and human-elephant conflict,” said Johanna Hamburger, director and senior attorney of AWI’s terrestrial wildlife program. “They should ...