Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.

(Reuters) - African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that ...

A $7 million, comprehensive census of African elephants has found that the population decreased by nearly a third between 2007 and 2014. The Great Elephant Census was conducted over three years, and ...

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, as ...

Elephant populations in Southern Africa are stable or growing, but the space available for them is not. Often, elephant populations are constrained, increasing their impact on the environment or ...