With African elephants endangered, a UCLA-led study says their decline could ripple from the rainforest to the concert stage—revealing a critical link between the threatened species and pianos and ...

The genetic analysis detected 367 different plant species across the samples. More remarkably, individual elephants showed ...

Affected by: Illegal wildlife trade , Habitat loss and fragmentation , Human-elephant conflict African elephants are the world's largest land mammals, with males, on average, reaching up to 3m in ...

The world is connected in surprising ways. A new study gives the latest example - how African elephant poop helps make American-made guitars. As NPR's Nate Rott reports, the study also comes with a ...

African elephants (Loxodonta Africana) live in the savannas, rainforests, woodlands, and scrub forests of central and southern Africa. In these wide-open landscapes, long-distance communication is a ...

DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate -- and higher -- population estimate for the elusive animal, but the species remains critically endangered, a ...

Elephants are the largest land animals worldwide, used in tourism in several countries, and are often gentle to humans despite their gigantic sizes. However, the elephant population has fallen greatly ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

International Business Machines Corporation IBM recently announced a collaboration with the World Wide Fund (“WWF”) for Nature - Germany to focus on advancing the conservation of critically endangered ...

In 2017, when Vincent Deblauwe joined the Cameroon-based Congo Basin Institute (CBI) to study African ebony (Diospyros crassiflora) — economically valuable pitch-black, dense wood — the Indigenous ...