African elephants are members of the genus Loxodonta comprising two living elephant species, the African bush elephant (L. africana) and the smaller African...

The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), also known as the African savanna elephant, is one of two extant African elephant species and one of three...

The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of the two living species of African elephant. It is native to humid tropical forests in West...

Elephants are the largest living land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African...

The North African elephant (Loxodonta africana pharaohensis) is an extinct subspecies of the African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), or possibly a...

African elephants are genus of elephant, Loxodonta. It contains two extant species, the African bush elephant, L. africana, and the African forest elephant...

Africa to thick forest. One species, the North African elephant shrew, remains in the semi-arid, mountainous country in the far northwest of Africa....

elephants or elephantids anywhere in the world, the others being the African bush elephant and African forest elephant. Further, the Asian elephant is...

A war elephant was an elephant that was trained and guided by humans for combat. The war elephant's main use was to charge the enemy, break their ranks...

remaining African big tuskers are in Kenya. Elephant ivory poaching has been a widespread problem in Africa. In 2013, over 20,000 African elephants were killed...

Elephant cognition is animal cognition as present in elephants. Most contemporary ethologists view the elephant as one of the world's most intelligent...

machinery and were partly responsible for massive African elephant decline in the 1980s, when the African elephant population went from 1.3 million to around...

wife, Cécile, had invented for their children. It tells of a young African elephant, named Babar, whose mother is killed by a big game hunter. Babar escapes...

Elephant Park was one of South Africa’s largest African elephants. Kongad Kuttisankaran, one of the few native elephants born in Kerala to have a height...

times, with traditional elephant hunting being historically practiced by some modern African hunter-gatherer groups. Elephant meat is also widely illegally...

Elephants communicate via touching, visual displays, vocalisations, seismic vibrations, and semiochemicals. Individual elephants greet each other by stroking...

elephant, native to mainland Asia. The species is smaller than the African elephant species with a convex back and the highest body point on its head....

and an elephant is a story of a group of blind men who have never come across an elephant before and who learn and imagine what the elephant is like...

captive birth in North America of an Asian elephant occurred at Oregon Zoo in 1962, while the first African elephant captive birth occurred at Knoxville Zoological...

in African elephants in 1981. There is evidence that similar behaviour occurred in extinct proboscideans like gomphotheres and mastodons. Elephants often...

The Knysna elephants were the relicts of once substantial herds of African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) in the Outeniqua/Tsitsikamma region of southernmost...

hybrid between an Asian and an African elephant. The male calf was born in Chester Zoo, to Asian mother Sheba and African father Jumbolino. He was named...

European and African powers, such as Ancient Rome and Ancient Carthage, particularly to deal with mutinous soldiers. Historically, the elephants were under...

care and management of captive and wild elephants. African elephants are listed as "Vulnerable" and Asian elephants as "Endangered" on the IUCN Red List...

authorities on the African elephant. In 1993, he founded Save the Elephants, which is dedicated to securing a future for elephants and their habitats...

wisdom. Similarly, the African elephant is seen as the wise chief who impartially settles disputes among the forest creatures in African fables, and the Ashanti...

2021-01-11. Emily Halnon (2020). "African Forest Elephant". ScienceDaily (Press release). Retrieved 2021-01-11. "Asian Elephant". World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved...

The North African elephant shrew (Petrosaltator rozeti) or North African sengi is a species of elephant shrew in the family Macroscelididae. It is found...

Isilo (c. 1956 – 2014) was one of South Africa’s largest African elephants and the largest living tusker in the southern hemisphere before his death. He...

gland excretions in African elephant bulls do necessarily represent the musth phase.: 111  Female elephants also secrete temporin: African females secrete...