Elephants are strong enough to knock over trees. But why do they do it, and how does it benefit the ecosystem?

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

There are currently around 415,000 African elephants in the world (African bush and African forest combined), but there are only approximately 40,000 to 50,000 Asian elephants left.

The African forest elephant is now listed as critically endangered, and the African savanna elephant is now listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of ...

Behavioural differences: habitat use (bush elephants are found in savannas and woodlands; forest elephants are found in dense forest); diet (the forest elephant is much more of a browser and frugivore ...

According to the organization, there are two species of African elephants: the savanna or bush elephant and the forest elephant. Savanna elephants are larger than forest elephants and their tusks ...

Videos show how African elephants may be the first nonhuman species to use vocal name-like identifiers for each other, suggesting "the capacity for some degree of symbolic thought," researchers said.