An elephant in South Africa’s Kruger National Park trampled a tourist to death as he was trying to protect children, ...

HABITAT: Savannah elephants occupy the savannah, grassland and desert ecosystems of sub-Saharan Africa ... Cameroon, Chad and Central African Republic. They occur in larger populations in Eastern and ...

A 59-year-old male tourist was trampled to death by an elephant while reportedly trying to save his grandchild at Kruger National Park in South Africa last weekend, according to a statement from the ...

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 rift features some of Africa ...

The herbivores once roamed freely from the south Sahara Desert to northern South Africa. There are approximately 415,000 ...

The African elephant, Loxodonta africana ... but the hottest are the desert and arid regions. Their optimum body temperature is 36°C (96°F), but the temperatures here can get significantly ...

African elephants are a matriarchal species ... Too many elephants can overwhelm an ecosystem, trampling plant life into desert and exhausting the food supply. So, in an effort to find the ...

African elephants probably would be a better fit for the desert and for our climate, but it would take a huge investment. And we'd have to look at space and where that would be at the zoo or on ...

I’ve worked with elephants for about 25 years across Africa and Asia, so when Kiri, the director of ‘Deserts and Grasslands’ asked me to film in Zakouma National Park, it was offer I couldn ...