Learn about elephants' sharp sense of travel planning, helping them save energy and find food as they trek through their ...

SURVEYING elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic ...

Zoo Atlanta is pouncing into the springtime with a newly renovated African lion complex now open to the public.

These findings, researchers say, can help conservationists design elephant corridors to connect fragmented habitats. African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana), considered endangered ...

The six-month, $3 million project features a newly designed 1,500 sq. ft. habitat for lions Hondo, Hatari and Azizi.

Botswana's elephant population has doubled in recent decades, creating chaos for many who live alongside them.

lists the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) as Critically Endangered and the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) as Endangered. Increased human activity has further fragmented ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the ...

Some are pushing trophy hunting as part of the solution, but not for the reason you might think. Hunting elephants has left Leon Kachelhoffer with a strange mix of reverence and disdain for the ...

They were men of iron nerve, unerring aim and, gazed at through a modern lens, it seems they were also capable of unbearable cruelty.