Mundi the 41-year-old African savannah elephant, spent 35 years alone at the Mayaguez Zoo in Puerto Rico before the park's closure Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

Not all elephants are the same. A new study has found that male African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) develop distinctive personality traits as they age. “We wanted to know whether ...

DESCRIPTION: Savannah elephants are the larger of the two African elephant species. They also have thicker, more curved tusks, more triangulated ears, and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant ...

despite compelling genetic research concluding that two species of African elephants exist — forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) — Africa's two elephant ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Conservation & Society Vol. 15, No. 3, 2017 Well-Being Impacts of Human-Elephant Con... High densities of wild African savannah elephants (Loxodonta ...

A 2004 expedition to Ghana studied a population of elephants in the transition zone between the classic savannah and forest forms. We found a mosaic of features, including body size as large as ...

This is what is known as an elephant rumble. It may not be apparent to the human ear, but scientists say it contains a name. When this African Savannah elephant, known to scientists as Margaret ...