This research provides the most comprehensive assessment of trends in the two species of elephants in Africa: the forest ...

Maintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.

African elephants actually include two species: the African savanna elephant and the African forest elephant. The African savanna elephant lives on the savanna and grasslands of sub-Saharan Africa ...

A new study analyzed the largest archaeological cargo of African ivory ever found, researchers report. All of the elephant tusks were from African forest elephants, Loxodonta cyclotis.

A new study has analyzed 53 years of population survey data and found large-scale declines in most populations of both ...

Another iconic member of the Big Five is the elephant, the largest land animal on Earth. Two distinct subspecies live across 37 African countries: the African forest elephant and the African ...

Tropical rainforests don’t give up their secrets easily. ... That’s why it’s so rewarding to see these incredible images.” ...

DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species. They also have straighter, thinner tusks, more rounded ears and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant species ...

Male elephant societies are dynamic and consist ... said this is equally true for African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) which are intuitive, including being capable of outsmarting humans ...

Importantly, despite compelling genetic research concluding that two species of African elephants exist — forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) — Africa's ...

There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions and very marked physical differences: A 2004 expedition to Ghana studied a population of elephants in the transition zone between ...

One photo shows a baby African forest elephant walking behind an adult. Another shows an African golden cat, a vulnerable species, pausing in a clearing and peering toward the camera. An African ...