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 ...

A two-day-old baby Asian elephant gets an early start on a life of plant eating. Credit: SEAN GALLUP/Getty Images The team next hopes to study male African elephants in the wild. Unlike females ...

The elephants have a clear size advantage. Elephants are the largest land mammals. Adult male African elephants can weigh up to 14,000 pounds. Hippos on the other hand can weigh anywhere from ...

“There I was, 21 years old, and I said, ‘Yes, it does exist in male African elephants,’” Poole recalls. “It was quite a big discovery.” It would be the first of many for Poole. Returning to Amboseli ...

Similar to Meru, Nandi, who is now 10 years old, was a very bold baby. Nandi was the first elephant born in Arizona and very ...

The African elephant is the largest land mammal ... teaching them where to find water and food, while male elephants are loan rangers. Both males and females use their ivory tusks to dig for ...