BELA-BELA, South Africa (AP) — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. Tell them apart by their ears There are three species of ...

Through their foraging behavior across the diverse topography of the African savanna, megaherbivores may be unknowingly influencing the growth and survival of vegetation on valleys and plateaus, while ...

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.

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature now lists the African forest elephant as critically endangered and the African savanna elephant as endangered. Both species have experienced sharp ...

Wildebeest migrations have become a rarer sight in Africa as humans continue to interrupt their historic migratory routes with roads, fences, cities, livestock and farmland. This has led to genetic ...

Questions: Ungulate herbivory and formation of large termite mounds occur over different time scales, but both can affect plant community composition in savannas. Human-managed savanna systems are ...