Elephants have long been thought of as either African or Asian. But there are actually two species of African elephant: The savanna elephant is larger, has curving tusks, and roams the open plains ...

Previously, some scientists argued that the African savanna elephant and the forest elephant were the same species. Scientists from Harvard, the University of Illinois and the University of York ...

African savanna elephants are losing space. There’s a huge amount of human-elephant conflict ... I’m going to plant grass, not tomatoes, I’m going to plant grass. I’m going to make ...

A comprehensive study conducted between 1964 and 2016 at 475 sites across 37 countries revealed that savanna elephant populations have decreased by approximately 70%, and forest elephants by ...

increasingly grass-rich diets of the earliest true elephants were associated with dryer and more grass-rich savanna environments than elsewhere in East Africa. “This supports the hypothesis of such ...