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 ...

At the same time, it is officially identifying African elephants as two distinct species: savanna elephants and ... also downgraded the status of the more prevalent savanna elephants from vulnerable ...

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 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 ...

or a savanna. These animals are best adapted to vast expanses of grassland with scattered trees, where the climate is hot, year-round. Savannas cover almost half the surface of Africa and large ...