BELA-BELA, South Africa (AP) — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. Tell them apart by their ears There are three species of ...

In this YouTube video, a pack of African wild dogs has caught a kudu near a watering hole. They have nearly finished devouring the carcass when a lone bull elephant turns up to take a drink. The ...

A near-impenetrable plateau in Central Africa allowed elephants to hide from humans for years. The same landscape could also be their savior.

Conservationist and ornithologist Steve Boyes has been searching for this elusive herd for years, and the story of his ...

LIWONDE NATIONAL PARK, Malawi -- Half a dozen African elephants lay strewn on a riverside plain in Malawi, immobilized by darts fired from a helicopter in a massive project to move 500 elephants, by ...

African elephants are the world's largest land mammals, with males, on average, reaching up to 3m in height and weighing up to 6 tonnes. The number of African forest elephants has fallen by more than ...

Not so long ago, the trumpeting of elephants could be heard across a great deal of our planet. Wrinkly-skinned giants did not only inhabit Africa and southern Asia, but roamed from prehistoric ...

African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...

BELA-BELA, South Africa (AP) — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. There are three species of elephants: the African savanna or ...