African elephants currently are listed as one species under the less-protective “threatened” status. But recent genetic studies indicate that Africa’s elephants actually comprise two separate species ...

While savannah elephants are found across sub-Saharan Africa in a variety of habitats, forest elephants are found in much smaller areas and are currently concentrated in Gabon and the Republic of ...

A new study of African savannah elephant populations in Angola by wildlife ecologists reports today that though the population seemed to be recovering after the war ended there, that trend has now ...

A study has both good news and bad news for the future of African elephants. While about 18 million square kilometers of Africa -- an area bigger than the whole of Russia -- still has suitable ...

The Birmingham Zoo will break ground Wednesday on a $12.5 million Trails of Africa exhibit, a simulated savannah setting which will serve as home to what zoo officials are calling a one-of-a-kind ...

African elephant populations are sometimes thought to differ only by the location of the animals, but, evolutionarily speaking, forest and savannah elephants are as separate genetically as Asian ...

There’s the African Forest elephant, the African Savannah elephant and the Asian elephant. You can tell them apart by their ears. African elephants’ ears are the same shape as the map of Africa.