Two African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) walk in the rainforest of the Congo Basin. guenterguni / Getty Images In the dense rainforests of central Africa, a majestic creature roams. The ...

The African forest elephant is now listed as critically endangered, and the African savanna elephant is now listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List ...

Scientists compared methodologies to count African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis), which were recently acknowledged by IUCN as a separate, Critically Endangered species from African ...

An elephant not seen in several years was recently captured on camera strolling through a national park in Senegal. This ...

No, this photo-bombing pachyderm is not an apparition, a phantasm or a spooky specter. He is the only African forest elephant to be spotted — via remote trail cam — in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba ...

Named after Ousmane Sarr, a veteran park ranger who dedicated his life to protecting Niokolo-Koba's endangered species, the elephant steps silently into view in the black-and-white footage. His large ...

The dense tropical forests are home to the African forest elephant. African bush elephants live in 23 countries with the majority located in southern and eastern African countries, such as ...

No, this photo-bombing pachyderm is not an apparition, a phantasm or a spooky specter. He is the only African forest elephant to be spotted — via remote trail cam — in Senegal’s Niokolo-Koba ...

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 are the largest land animals worldwide, used in tourism in several countries, and are often gentle to humans despite their gigantic sizes. However, the elephant population has fallen greatly ...

Logging is threatening Omo Forest Reserve in southern Nigeria, which is home to endangered wildlife like African elephants. Logging grows in a Nigerian forest with endangered elephants - Los ...

Videos show how African elephants may be the first nonhuman species to use vocal name-like identifiers for each other, suggesting "the capacity for some degree of symbolic thought,"; researchers said.