and Delhi Zoo has been suspended from the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums for chaining its lone African elephant, Shankar. Wild elephants are not spared. In Bandhavgarh National Park ...

The intricate web of cracks and crevices that gives African elephants their distinctive ... The millions of micrometer-wide fractures in elephants’ skin retain mud and water after mud baths ...

The last elephant in South Africa’s national zoo has been released back into the wild after 40 years of captivity. The elephant, named Charlie, was captured in 1984 from Zimbabwe’s Hwange ...

While African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis) are native to the dense tropical forests of Central and West Africa, no wild populations ... foliage and access mud wallows that benefit their ...