Science news articles about 'elephant range'

  • Are high speed elephants running or walking?

    ... forces exerted on the animals by the ground as they move and found that elephants run in some senses, but not in others. They publish their results on 12 ... by the animals. Encouraged to move by their mahouts, 34 elephants ranging from an 870kg baby up to a 4 tonne ...
  • New analysis points to ivory enforcement failures in parts of Africa, Asia

    ... , highlight the failure of law enforcement in key elephant range States facing an increasing threat ... , which also shows that the Central African region is losing the most elephants. "Until this strengthened law enforcement happens ...
  • Relocating elephants fails to decrease human–wildlife conflict

    ... . One of the most common tools in combating these conflicts is moving the elephants into ranges away from humans, often into national ... , socioeconomic and political issue across Asian elephant range in Asia and Africa. It is also one of the major threats ...
  • Elephants near Timbuktu make astonishing treks

    ... group of elephants near Timbuktu makes an epic journey each year in their quest for food ... miles (32,000 square kilometers) in the deserts of Mali, marking the largest known elephant range in the world ...
  • 60 percent loss of forest elephants in Africa confirmed

    ... ONE shows that across their range in central Africa, a staggering 62 percent of all forest elephants have been killed ... . John Hart of the Lukuru Foundation says: "Historically, elephants ranged right across the forests of this vast ...

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