BELA-BELA, South Africa (AP) — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. Tell them apart by their ears There are three species of ...

The forest elephants of the Congo Basin are critically endangered and face extinction. They live in Africa’s largest forest, extending over the continent’s west and central regions. Large populations ...

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 ...

African forest elephants, which inhabit the dense rainforests of west and central Africa, are smaller than their African savanna elephant cousins. Poaching for ivory and loss of habitat have led to a ...

An extinct species of giant elephant that used to roam across much of Europe and Asia was more closely related to modern African forest elephants than forest elephants are to modern African bush ...

PONGARA NATIONAL PARK, Gabon (AP) — Loss of habitat and poaching have made African forest elephants a critically endangered species. Yet the dense forests of sparsely populated Gabon in the Congo ...

In the West and Central African rainforests, forest elephants are unwittingly helping to save the world. As this relatively small elephant tears through the rainforest, stripping bark from trees and ...

An estimated 189 African forest elephants are now living in Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park, according to the findings of a recent survey. The last reliable population estimate was conducted nearly ...

* Central African forest elephants risk extinction * Asian demand, widespread logging, more weapons to blame * Forest elephant ivory especially prized By Tansa Musa YAOUNDE, April 26 (Reuters) - ...

There’s a new addition at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Bay Lake, Florida, and she weighs a whopping 218 pounds. An African elephant calf named Corra was recently born at the resort, making her the first ...