African elephants exist in about 40 range states, ... Elephants do not have natural predators. Adult elephants are hardly bothered by predators, as they tower over all other terrestrial animals.

NAIROBI, Kenya Some African elephant herds are adapting to the danger of poaching by moving out of risky areas, according to one conservation group.. The plight of elephants is a key issue at the ...

African predators engage in their own 'Game of Thrones' Owen Ullmann. USATODAY. SAVUTE, Botswana — It's a jungle out there. ...

Many elephants at the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa, are lacking one distinguishable feature that elephants usually have: tusks. Researchers believe the heavy presence of poaching ...

The elephant population in Kruger has drastically risen in the last century. Park managers must now contend with an over-abundance of intelligent, endangered, ecosystem engineers.

The number of African elephants being killed by poachers has fallen to below 15,000 per year, which is still too high for populations to have a future Close Advertisement ...

The African elephant is actually two different species, according to a new DNA study that may settle a long-simmering debate. "The big surprise of this paper," though, is just how genetically ...

Animals as powerful as the African elephant can go largely untroubled by predators. Their bulk alone protects them from all but the most ambitious of lion prides.. But these defences do nothing ...

In this March 9, 2010, file photo, elephants use their trunks to smell for possible danger in the Tsavo East national park, Kenya.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File) ...