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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

NATURE films". Isilo of Tembe Elephant Park was one of South Africa’s largest African elephants who was the largest living tusker in the Southern hemisphere...

living species of elephants or elephantids anywhere in the world, the others being the African bush elephant and African forest elephant and the only living...

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

Elephant meat is the flesh and other edible parts of elephants. The bodies of elephants have a relatively high fat content, with one prominent fatty area...

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....

Individual elephant greet each other by stroking or wrapping their trunks; the latter also occurs during mild competition. Older elephants use trunk-slaps...

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...

population Lists of mammals by population [email protected] (2016). "African Bush Elephant". www.greatelephantcensus.com. Retrieved 2021-01-11. Colin M. Brand...

identifying musth in African elephants. Scientific investigation of musth is problematic because even the most placid elephants become violent toward...

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...

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

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...

influence landscape planning to take elephants into account. With four members of staff on the African Elephant Specialist Group, we aspire to be a leading...

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...

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

1997. Maggie, an African elephant, came to the Alaska Zoo in 1983 as a companion for Annabelle. Maggie originated in Zimbabwe, Africa, where her herd had...

an extinct species of elephant by Georges Cuvier in 1796. The woolly mammoth was roughly the same size as modern African elephants. Males reached shoulder...

mammoth, and most commonly, African and Asian elephants. Ivory has been traded for hundreds of years by people in Africa and Asia, resulting in restrictions...