BELA-BELA, South Africa (AP) — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. Tell them apart by their ears There are three species of ...

Find out just how big African elephants can get and what they eat to support their huge bodies, then watch one push a tree ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African elephant has some of the world's biggest ears, measuring more than six feet long and more than four feet wide. It’s a ...

Elephants wear their biology in plain sight. Those sweeping ears are not a decorative afterthought but a set of oversized tools that help a giant animal stay alive in hot, noisy, and often dangerous ...

Elephants are known for their intelligence, complex social behavior, memory and size, including their giant ears. The ears of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) can grow up to 6.6 feet (2 meters) ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

(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 ...

Conservationist and ornithologist Steve Boyes has been searching for this elusive herd for years, and the story of his ...

BELA-BELA, South Africa (AP) — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. There are three species of elephants: the African savanna or ...