1994 - only since this year have we been able to see their natural migration routes 22 months - gestation period of the African Elephant "Musth" is the testosterone-fuelled frenzy that prompts ...

Years' effort of afforestation and forest protection and of closing hillsides to livestock grazing and hunting has turned the Dai Autonomous Prefecture's tropical rain forests into a habitat of a ...

Unlike most mammals, elephants don’t sweat. They can’t afford the water loss. The African elephant has the largest ears of any animal, accounting for 20% of their overall surface area.

[David Gichuru, Standard] Elephants are the world’s largest land animals. There are lots of different kinds. There’s the African Forest elephant, the African Savannah elephant and the Asian ...

African elephants population is declining due to poaching and habitat loss African elephants are primarily threatened by poaching and habitat loss. Poaching for ivory remains a persistent issue ...

On top of this, loss of habitat, human-elephant conflict, and political instability provide significant long-term challenges to their survival. Importantly, despite compelling genetic research ...

They aren’t able to maintain a warm body temperature like mammals. Both Asian and African elephants live in habitats that can get very hot. So, these warm-blooded animals have to take steps to ...