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SCIENTISTS have fitted GPS-enabled satellite collars to eight African savannah elephants roaming the environs of Hwange National Park. Linked to “Earth Ranger” enabled technology, the elephants will ...
Mundi the 41-year-old African savannah elephant, spent 35 years alone at the Mayaguez Zoo in Puerto Rico before the park's closure Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...
Zoo Atlanta's newest addition is Titan the African elephant. Sixteen-year-old Titan came to Atlanta from a Kansas zoo on the recommendation of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. The zoo now ...
Importantly, despite compelling genetic research concluding that two species of African elephants exist — forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) — Africa's ...
There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions and very marked physical differences: A 2004 expedition to Ghana studied a population of elephants in the transition zone between ...
DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species ... BREEDING: The breeding strategies for forest and savannah elephants are assumed to be mostly the same.