Walking gracefully across the vast African savanna, the African elephant is the largest land animal on Earth and one of the ...

What is the African elephant? African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their ...

Researchers have conducted the first assessment of metabolites in African savanna elephants, an important step in understanding the relationship between metabolism and health in these endangered ...

African buffalo are considered “near threatened” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, which determines the conservation listings for species, because its numbers have been ...

Research publishing October 5 in the journal Current Biology finds that mammals living in South Africa’s Greater Kruger National Park, home to one of the world’s largest remaining lion populations, ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – At the Nashville Zoo, you will always see the animals in an exhibit that resembles their natural habitat. Nashville Zoo’s “African Field” resembles the Savanna in Africa.

African elephants are keystone species facing severe declines due to the ivory trade and habitat loss. To investigate the genomic consequences, we analyze 232 high-coverage genomes from 17 African ...

DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate—and higher—population estimate for the elusive animal, but the species remains critically endangered, a study ...