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 a species of elephant native to sub-Saharan Africa. It...

The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of the two living species of African elephant, along with the African bush elephant. It is native...

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

North African elephant was smaller than extant African bush elephants (L. a. africana), possibly similar in size to the modern African forest elephant (L...

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

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

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

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

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...

A war elephant is an elephant that is trained and guided by humans for combat purposes. Historically, the war elephant's main use was to charge the enemy...

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...

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...

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

Tyke (1973 – August 20, 1994) was a female African bush elephant from Mozambique who performed with Circus International of Honolulu, Hawaii. On August...

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....

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

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

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

(Unknown - Barcelona, December 27, 2024) was an African elephant known as the world's longest-living elephant, who died at the Barcelona Zoo at approximately...

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...

Desert elephants or desert-adapted elephants are not a distinct species of elephant but are African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana) that have made...

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

The straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) is an extinct species of elephant that inhabited Europe and Western Asia during the Middle and Late...

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

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...

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...