Using seasonal cues and their long-term memories, these hulking creatures travel vast distances in close-knit herds to find water and food throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Highly intelligent and social ...

There’s also the forest buffalo, the West Africa savanna buffalo ... Buffalo and bison aren’t the same animals. How the misnomer came to be is murky, but it’s thought early American settlers ...

According to the IUCN, all elephant species are endangered. African forest elephants are listed as critically endangered, while African savanna and Asian elephants have been listed as endangered.

For African elephants, currently the largest land animals walking the Earth ... as Critically Endangered and the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) as Endangered.

As populations plummet across Africa ... of the intact savanna giraffes need to find the trees and bushes they eat, driving a 40 percent decline of the four giraffe species since 1985.

For animal lovers and adventurers ... the African forest elephant and the African savanna elephant (or African bush elephant) ...

An endangered Southern ground hornbill, a species of large bird ... It inhabits savanna and other areas south of the Equator in Africa and cannot fly long distances. Once it settles in an area ...

The Savanna includes expanded habitats for African elephants Kelly, Tara, Msholo and new herd-mate Titan; a mixed-species habitat for giraffes, zebras and ostrich; and habitats for warthogs ...