At a shoulder height of nearly eight feet, an elephant may seem easy to spot. But these giant mammals are surprisingly cryptic in the forest ecosystems they occupy. As a result, researchers often estimate the …
When Georgia Titcomb was embarking on her PhD research in Kenya, she noticed a wide array of animals—both domestic and wild—eating, drinking and pooping all in the same place. They may be sharing more than …
There aren’t many good places in the world to catch a machete to the leg, but hours of hiking into the midst of a Ugandan national park with “impenetrable” as part of its official name …
Ivory poaching in Mozambique has led to an increase in tuskless elephants in one park. Using video footage and photographic records, researchers found that as elephants (Loxodonta africana) were illegally hunted in Gorongosa National Park …
Figuring out what kind of barrier will keep elephants from raiding farms in India is difficult—unless you can out-think one of the animal world’s top thinkers. While revered by some in India, the massive pachyderms …
Despite a ban on elephant killing and the development of several protected areas for the animals to roam, some farmers still take the lives of the pachyderms in northwestern Sri Lanka to protect their land. …
Protected areas around the world are some of the last safe havens for many of the world’s jeopardized mammal species. The discovery, published in a study recently in Conservation Letters, means that one way or …
Elephants in Malaysian Borneo fenced out of large swaths of habitat around palm oil plantations are being pushed onto local farmers’ properties. Researchers are looking at ways to reduce the resulting conflicts. “For elephants, the …
The seasoned trackers sat on special chairs fastened to the front of a jeep moving slowly through the savannas of Angola’s Luengue-Luiana and Mavinga national parks. They eyed the ground in front of them for …
Species like beavers and elephants that engineer and change the ecosystems around them could help save other species from extinction. A new study may be the first to quantify the effect that organisms whose impact …
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