Unlike most mammals, elephants don’t sweat. They can’t afford the water loss. The African elephant has the largest ears of any animal, accounting for 20% of their overall surface area.

The largest land mammal on Earth, elephants embody the African landscape. Using seasonal cues and their long-term memories, these hulking creatures travel vast distances in close-knit herds to find ...

The death of a tourist on safari in South Africa is being called a "tragic accident." South African National Parks on ...

DESCRIPTION: Savannah elephants are the larger of the two African elephant species. They also have thicker, more curved tusks, more triangulated ears, and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant ...

South Africa Police are investigating after a tourist was trampled to death by an elephant at the Kruger National Park on ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The intricate web of cracks and crevices that gives African elephants their distinctive look is, in fact, an essential ...

This unit of three sessions imagines life at a typical waterhole in the African bush as animals come and go to drink and wash…and engage in the daily battle for survival. The emphasis is on ...

An elephant in South Africa’s Kruger National Park trampled a tourist to death as he was trying to protect children, ...

Titan, who the zoo says weighs more than 8,000 pounds, was born in Eswatini, an African nation near Mozambique. He and ...