In this YouTube video, a pack of African wild dogs has caught a kudu near a watering hole. They have nearly finished devouring the carcass when a lone bull elephant turns up to take a drink. The ...

National Geographic's Ghost Elephants is a feature documentary chronicling the search for Africa's most elusive elephant. Directed, narrated, and written by legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog, Ghost ...

If you were a kid of a certain era obsessed with adventures in far-flung lands, nothing thrilled like the 19th-century Western exploration of Africa. Burton, Grant and Speke embarking from Zanzibar to ...

A near-impenetrable plateau in Central Africa allowed elephants to hide from humans for years. The same landscape could also be their savior.

What do a wildlife conservationist, a herd of trained elephants, a jazz composer and an architect have in common? In the South African bush, this unlikely quartet has banded together to develop an ...

LIWONDE NATIONAL PARK, Malawi -- Half a dozen African elephants lay strewn on a riverside plain in Malawi, immobilized by darts fired from a helicopter in a massive project to move 500 elephants, by ...

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

Elephants experience all of the same emotions as we human beings, and they’re not bashful about expressing these feelings. Over the course of just a few hours, elephants will clearly demonstrate ...

African elephant herds have faced poaching for decades, but a new wave of poaching has placed them on the edge of extinction, according to a study published Tuesday. The study was published in the ...

Which country has the highest elephant population in the world? Learn about African elephants, top countries and interesting elephant facts.

KAMPALA, Uganda, Feb. 28 -- South African wildlife officials on Wednesday proposed new elephant management rules that would allow burgeoning populations to be culled, a practice banned since 1994 as ...