A new study has revealed alarming decline in African elephant populations, with forest elephant numbers plummeting by 90% and savanna elephant populations by 70% over the past five decades.
Elephant conservation has been a roaring success: numbers in Tsavo rose from around 6,000 in the mid-1990s to almost 15,000 elephants in 2021, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).
A police escort has safely seen New Zealand’s only elephant Burma to the airport for her flight to her new “forever home” in Adelaide. Forty-two-year-old Burma left Auckland Zoo this morning.
It found large-scale declines in both species of African elephants – the African forest elephant (L. cyclotis) and the larger African bush elephant (L. africana). In just over half a century ...
Now, it appears that some elephants at the Berlin Zoo in Germany like to use hoses–particularly an Asian elephant named Mary. A video abstract for the 2024 Current Biology paper on elephant ...
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R.I.P. Kamala. No, not that one. A beloved elephant at the National Zoo named Kamala was euthanized Saturday in D.C. — setting off a flurry of jokes about the wild timing, as Vice President ...
Kamala the elephant, who was living at The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington DC, had “irreversibly declined” in health, forcing keepers to euthanize ...