Africa’s largest elephant DNA study reveals growing genetic isolation as habitats shrink, raising urgent concerns for conservation.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.

Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

Historically, conservation has mostly focused on numbers like population and habitat size. However, in the mid-2000s, ...

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

According to a new study published on Monday, June 10, African elephants refer to one another with "individually specific calls" Gabrielle Rockson is a Writer-Reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in ...

The African elephant population was traditionally reliant upon the ability to move around large areas in order to preserve high numbers of healthy individuals and genetic diversity. Over countless ...

WASHINGTON — African elephants call each other and respond to individual names — something that few wild animals do, according to new research published Monday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

Many key differences separate African elephant from Asian elephants. Not only are they found in completely separate parts of the world, but they live in different habitats as well. The African ...