The staggering and unexplained deaths of over 300 African elephants in early 2020 — one of the largest mass mortality events ...

Their job is to keep the peace amid a worsening and at times deadly conflict between humans and the world's largest land ...

Now, a new study reveals that the personalities of elephants are more complex than we imagined. The researchers found that male African elephants have distinct personalities; and adapt their behavior ...

AN average decline of 90 percent for the African elephant population, a 70 percent decline for the savannah elephant population and a combined average decline of 77 percent across both species in the ...

Aging gracefully comes naturally to these creatures, which can live for hundreds, and sometimes even thousands, of years ...

DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species. They also have straighter, thinner tusks, more rounded ears and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant species ...

As large brained, slow-maturing, very social animals, elephants offer exciting potential for studies of cognition. In popular literature they are famed for having long memories and being very caring ...

Part of the reason is climate change. ‘But the most obvious explanation is that it was the result of a protracted war with human beings which the elephants lost. The Dattern of their withdrawal in ...

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