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African forest elephant, Loxodonta cyclotis, in South Africa, April 24, 2019 (Photo by George Gillams) The decision to treat African forest and savanna elephants as two separate species is the ...

African savanna elephants weigh nearly twice as much as their forest counterparts, yet many have considered them merely different populations of the same species. But new genetic evidence finally puts ...

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. Following population declines over several decades due to ...

Elephants are some of the most fascinating, huge yet cute animals roaming on Earth. They are smart and emotionally ...

Owing to the late Pleistocene extinctions, the megafauna of Europe, Australia and the Americas disappeared, and with them the dispersal service they offered megafaunal fruit. The African savanna ...

Researchers unveiled on Nov 11 what they called the most comprehensive assessment of the status of the two African elephant species – the savanna elephant and forest elephant – using data on ...

The number of African forest elephants has plummeted more than 86% over 31 years; the population of African savanna elephants has fallen at least 60% over the past 50 years.

Africa currently has 415,000 elephants, counting the forest and savanna elephants together, according to the agency. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has predicted that the African elephant ...