A bull male forest elephant in Gabon. A new study published in the PLOS ONE shows that African forest elephants are being poached into extinction. Photo by Elizabeth M. Rogers When you think of an ...

The African Savanna (Bush) elephant is the world's largest land animal – with adult males, or bull elephants, standing up to 3m high ... There are three species of elephant: African Savanna (Bush), ...

the African bush elephant (also known as the African savanna elephant), the African forest elephant and the Asian elephant. In 1930, approximately 10 million wild elephants were in Africa ...

That series of events seemed likely to play out recently when a forest elephant bull emerged from the dense ... In some cases, though, hives full of aggressive African honey bees are not ideal.

as bull elephants naturally move between herds for socializing and breeding purposes.” Due to poaching, habitat loss and trafficking for the illegal ivory trade, the zoo said the African ...

Following population declines over several decades due to poaching for ivory and loss of habitat, the African forest elephant is now listed as critically endangered. The African savanna elephant is ...

The 13-year-old African Bull will be joining current elephants- 32-year-old Shaka, 18-year-old Janu, and 9-year-old Sutton. Credit: Noah's Ark Zoo Farm An African Bull Elephant from Germany ...

The savanna elephant tips the scales at up to seven tons and stands a full meter (3.3 feet) taller at the shoulder than the African forest elephant, which lives in equatorial forests of central ...

In 2021, this species, as well as its close relative, the African forest elephant, received degraded conservation status. According to the IUCN, the forest elephant species was demoted to ...