The mellow light of dusk emphasised every wrinkle and hair as a herd of elephants approached David ... The distinctive large ears of African bush elephants have extensive blood vessels and wrinkles to ...

The African ... miles away. Elephants use their feet to communicate with each other. For example, they are able to sense an earthquake using their feet and alert the rest of the herd.

Although the African bush elephant is a social mammal that travels in a herd, these groups are composed of females and their offspring. Males leave the herd when they reach maturity – around the ...

The females almost always remain in the same herd for life and herds ... There are currently around 415,000 African elephants in the world (African bush and African forest combined), but there ...