These gentle giants' evolutionary story and its parallels with that of humankind has long fascinated Dr Tori Herridge, a ...

The female leading the herd – possibly the matriarch – looked straight at him, her amber eye shining bright through the heavy folds of skin. Her gaze was full of respect and intelligence, the essence ...

A female elephant’s dedication to her young ... There are three distinct species of elephants: African savanna elephants (or African bush elephants), African forest elephants, and Asian elephants.

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 ...

The African bush elephant is one of the heaviest land animals with adult male weighing up to 11 tonnes, and adult females can weigh up to 5.4 tonnes ...