African elephants are protected to varying degrees in all the countries of their geographic range. They’re also protected under international environmental agreements, CITES and the Convention ...

But there are actually two species of African elephant ... Gobush says. (See National Geographic’s stunning elephant pictures.) Bureaucratically, the two species have mostly continued to ...

Poole, a study co-author and National Geographic Explorer, made the Amboseli recordings. In all, the team analyzed data from 101 African savanna elephants making 469 separate calls to 117 recipients.

According to the new research, the two major types of African elephants are about as genetically distinct from each other as the Asian elephant is from the extinct woolly mammoth. And that ...

Then, in the 1950s and 1960s, smaller cameras made field reporting easier, and African safari culture blossomed. By this period, National Geographic’s reporting on elephants had changed to ...

National Geographic Explorer Joyce Poole reflects on her life’s achievement: an ethogram cataloguing nearly 50 years of data on African elephant behavior. Joyce Poole records elephant ...

National Geographic has captivated audiences with breathtaking footage of wildlife’s A-listers—think penguins, elephants, and ...

The much anticipated results of the largest ever continent-wide wildlife survey, the Great Elephant Census ... decisions,” Paul Allen told National Geographic. “We have to make faster ...

Normally, tusklessness would occur only in about 2 to 4 percent of female African ... 4,000 elephants lived in Gorongosa, says Joyce Poole—an elephant behavior expert and National Geographic ...

In December 2023, a 10-year-old African elephant disappeared from her herd in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve. When she returned a month later, she was accompanied by two unrelated females ...

There were over 10 million African elephants in the early 20th century ... it’s still a problem,” adds Poole, who is also a National Geographic explorer. Poole, who’s spent the last 40 ...