Saturday marked a momentous occasion at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida, where officials announced an African elephant calf was born at the park for the first time in seven years.

And just how big is the world’s largest ever recorded elephant? There are some distinguishing features between different ...

Southern African countries hosting the largest elephant populations in the world made a fresh pitch on Wednesday to be allowed to sell their $1 billion ivory stockpiles, amid calls to pull out of ...

The National Museum of Natural History recently spruced up its iconic African elephant mount, which has greeted visitors since 1959 Jack Tamisiea A team of specialists gently blows dust off of the ...

Survey-based inference of continental African elephant decline. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2024; 121 (48) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2403816121 Cite This Page : ...

From 1964–2016, forest elephant populations decreased on average by 90%, and savanna elephant populations fell on average by 70%. In combination, populations declined by 77% on average.

There is hope that once Osh, a male, arrives at the sanctuary, the 30-year-old pachyderm will reunite with Donna, the zoo’s last remaining female African elephant that was relocated there last year.

Tonka, the largest male elephant in North America and the last remaining elephant on display at Zoo Knoxville, is no longer on public view after being placed under hospice care. Zoo officials ...