With their farms located on the edge of the rainforest where the elephants live, the locals could only watch in despair as marauding herds ate their fill. Some unlucky residents have even found ...

But how long do African elephants live? The average life expectancy of an African elephant is around 70 years, while their slightly smaller relative, the Asian elephant, has a life expectancy of ...

The African bus Elephant is the planets largest animal. It can weigh as much as 7 metric tonnes and live to be seventy years ...

Many key differences separate African elephant from Asian elephants. Not only are they found in completely separate parts of the world, but they live in different habitats as well. The African ...

This leads to around 20,000 elephants being killed each year and their tusks being sold illegally around the world, especially in some parts of Asia. The East African ... and can live for around ...

African savannah elephants are an endangered species so conservationists say any threat to their survival is worrying A type of bacterium never seen before in wild elephants has been found in the ...

A near-total ban on taking baby African elephants from the wild and selling them to zoos has been approved at a meeting in Geneva. Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered ...