I spent the afternoon on the elevated observation platform at Dzanga-Baï, a vast forest clearing where elephants and other wildlife congregate to drink and to benefit from minerals dissolved in the ...

DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species. They also have straighter, thinner tusks, more rounded ears and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant species ...

Savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) can be found in the north and forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) in the south. It’s not clear how many elephants there are in Nigeria. Eighteen years ...

Forest elephants. Credit: Brett Hartl / Center for Biological Diversity. Image is available for media use. The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with ...