The trunk of an African ... Elephant such a unique animal. The trunk consists of 8 major muscles on either side and a total ...

Asian elephants are endangered. There are about 30,000 to 50,000 Asian elephants left in the wild—that’s compared to about 500,000 African elephants in the wild. One issue that our scientists study is ...

People have reported that African elephants ... and an elephant's trunk has a lot of them, about 40,000, compared to around 650 muscles in the entire human body. Normally, muscles depend on ...

Olga Thompson/Walt Disney World A baby elephant recently made ... juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. At Animal Kingdom, births of African elephants — who the World ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Conservation & Society Vol. 15, No. 3, 2017 Well-Being Impacts of Human-Elephant Con... High densities of wild African savannah elephants (Loxodonta ...

Chazen Museum of Art exhibit “Insistent Presence: Contemporary African Art from the Chazen Collection,” examines the human condition through three fundamental lenses ... perched many small figures on ...

DESCRIPTION: Savannah elephants are the larger of the two African ... the forest elephant, the seed dispersal and brush clearing of savannah elephants maintain the savannah landscape and promote plant ...

On top of this, loss of habitat, human-elephant conflict, and political instability provide significant long-term challenges to their survival. Importantly, despite compelling genetic research ...

Being an elephant is no easy task. These giant herbivores have to devour huge quantities of low-nutrient vegetation to meet their dietary needs, but their imposing size makes movement difficult ...