Explore a country-by-country look at the population status of the African savanna elephant. The Great Elephant Census surveyed sites throughout the continent in 2014 and 2015. During this period ...
A deadly bacterium has been found in the bodies of six African savanna elephants that mysteriously died off in Zimbabwe in 2020. At the time, the carcasses of 35 African elephants (Loxodonta ...
The forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of two living African elephant species, the other being the savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). Historically, forest elephants thrived in the dense ...
Of the two species of African elephants, forest elephants are both smaller and more rare than their cousins, African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana). Scientists used to think both animals ...