GENEVA, Nov 27 (Reuters) - There are thousands more endangered African forest elephants than previously thought, thanks to a new counting method using the DNA extracted from their dung, a study showed ...

What is the African elephant? African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their Asian cousins and can be identified by their larger ears that look somewhat ...

1. Does recent research resolve once and for all whether there are two separate species of African elephant? 2. What are the conservation implications if there are two species? We would have to ...

Many key differences separate African elephant from Asian elephants. Not only are they found in completely separate parts of the world, but they live in different habitats as well. The African ...

The west African ebony tree is dependent on the smaller African forest elephant’s survival. Animalia CC The forest elephants of the Congo Basin are critically endangered and face extinction. They live ...

African forest elephants are harder to study than their savanna relatives. They move through dense rainforest, often unseen, leaving behind tracks, dung, broken vegetation, and other subtle signs.