What’s in a name? People use unique names to address each other, but we’re one of only a handful of animal species known to do that, including bottlenose dolphins. Finding more animals with names and ...

In Southern Africa, people live alongside elephants, but not always peacefully. The growing reports of human-elephant conflict have triggered calls for elephant culls in some countries, like Zimbabwe.

Nigeria has a unique elephant population, made up of both forest-dwelling (Loxodonta cyclotis) and savanna-dwelling (Loxodonta africana) elephant species. But the animals are facing unprecedented ...