At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species: savanna elephants and forest elephants. The reclassification — part of an update to IUCN’s Red List of ...

Museum research has uncovered populations with a mosaic of features. There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions and very marked physical differences: A 2004 expedition to ...

Based on genetic research and the latest status assessment of African elephants, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has formally split the species into forest and savanna ...

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 ...

The African bus Elephant is the planets largest animal. It can weigh as much as 7 metric tonnes and live to be seventy years old in the wild. Elephants spend most of their lives walking huge ...