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There Could Be 10,000 More African Forest Elephants Than We Thought – But They’re Still Critically Endangered

African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) were only recognized as a species separate from the African savannah elephant (Loxodonta africana) in 2021. Now, new evidence and survey techniques have ...
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Elephants: Do Giant Brains Mean More Smarts?

African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...
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African elephants use names to call each other, study suggests

Wild African elephants may address each other using individualized calls that resemble the personal names used by humans, a new study suggests. While dolphins are known to call one another by ...
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50 years of survey data confirm African elephant decline

A study found large-scale declines of African elephants in the first continent-wide analysis of population survey data. Over 53 years of surveys, forest elephant populations decreased on average by 90 ...
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African elephants address one another with name-like calls − similar to humans

What’s in a name? People use unique names to address each other, but we’re one of only a handful of animal species known to do that, including bottlenose dolphins. Finding more animals with names and ...
The Conversation

Africa’s elephants have been in dramatic decline for 50 years. What can be done to save them – new study

George Wittemyer receives funding from the U.S.A. National Science Foundation and Save the Elephants, a Kenya based non-profit organization. He is a professor at Colorado State University and serves ...
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African elephants call each other by unique names, new study shows

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When some elephants raid farms, they might not be after a snack. They could be looking for medicinal plants

Many farmers across the western African nation of Gabon share the same grievance: waking up to trampled crops after nighttime ...
Smithsonian Magazine

14 Fun Facts About Elephants

African elephant populations are sometimes thought to differ only by the location of the animals, but, evolutionarily speaking, forest and savannah elephants are as separate genetically as Asian ...
Omaha.com

African Grasslands countdown: It's been five years since the zoo last had elephants

An elephant takes a drink in the African Grasslands exhibit at the Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium in Omaha. The Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium opens its $73 million, 28-acre African Grasslands exhibit on ...
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There Could Be 10,000 More African Forest Elephants Than We Thought – But They’re Still Critically Endangered

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford.View full profile Eleanor has an ...