A major survey of elephants on the African savannah has found their population fell by 30 per cent in just seven years in a “deeply disturbing” sign of the devastating effect of poaching on ...

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 have long been thought of as either African or Asian. But there are actually two species of African elephant: The savanna elephant is larger, has curving tusks, and roams the open plains ...

A mature male African savannah elephant may stand up to 13 feet tall at the shoulder and weigh 14,000 pounds. African elephants - forest and savanna.

An African savannah elephant in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Shutterstock/Martin Pelanek. Wild elephants are one of the few known species to show signs of self-domestication.

Mundi is ready for her fresh start. The 41-year-old female African savannah elephant has spent most of her life in captivity. According to World Animal Protection, Mundi was orphaned at a young ...

She highlighted that with the recording of the second birth of an African savannah elephant, Sharjah Safari aims to consolidate its qualitative successes in breeding and adding many animals in ...

Mundi the 41-year-old African savannah elephant, spent 35 years alone at the Mayaguez Zoo in Puerto Rico before the park's closure Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...