What is the African elephant? African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.

Animal welfare groups in South Africa are taking a zoo to court over the mental well-being of three elephants.

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as ...

The Topeka Zoo announced May 16 that its last remaining elephant, 56-year-old African pachyderm Tembo, had died after living ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — When it comes to the niche business of moving elephants, Dr. Amir Khalil and his team might be the best. The Egyptian veterinarian’s résumé includes possibly the most famous ...

The victim was reportedly a 59-year-old man from South Africa Ian Walton/Getty A tourist has been trampled to death by an elephant while visiting a national park in South Africa. The victim was ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

Zoo taken to court over claims three South African elephants are depressed - Animal welfare groups claim the elephants, named Lammie, Ramadiba and Mopane, live in an enclosure not much bigger than a s ...

Millionaire Ernie Dosio, 75, had splashed out $40,000 to stalk small forest antelope with two professional hunters when ...

A California vineyard owner has died after being crushed by elephants while on a hunting expedition in Africa. Ernie Dosio, 75, was hunting yellow-backed duikers in Gabon when the deadly April 17 ...