“Elephants are the gardeners of the forest,” Blake wrote, explaining that when elephants eat the fruit from high carbon ...

A Spanish tourist reportedly has been "trampled to death" by elephants in South Africa after he tried to get close to them to take pictures. The fatal incident involving the 43-year-old man happened ...

Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August, Namibia ...

Across the corral, a young elephant ambled into view, head bobbing, trunk curling, ears flapping, trundling along as fast as ...

Elephants are considered a sacred totem by many in northwestern Zimbabwe, but they also frequently raid villagers’ crops near ...

(Reuters) - African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that ...

The vision is to use the gate to create extended elephant migration routes that cut across South Africa, connecting green areas with navigation corridors that bypass cities and the rehabilitated gold ...

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 ...

SPECIES SURVIVE. ELEPHANTS ARE MAJESTIC AND REGAL ANIMALS, BUT THEIR POPULATIONS IN THE WILD ARE DWINDLING. DOCTOR KATE EVANS, A ZOOLOGIST, HAS MADE IT HER LIFE’S WORK TO STUDY AND PROTECT THEM. IT IS ...

BELA-BELA, South Africa — 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 bush ...

C'sar the elephant, the N.C. Zoo's longest-tenured and one of its most charismatic residents, has died. The park announced C'sar's passing on Monday, Dec. 22, saying he died peacefully on Dec. 19 ...

African elephant herds have faced poaching for decades, but a new wave of poaching has placed them on the edge of extinction, according to a study published Tuesday. The study was published in the ...