In this YouTube video, a pack of African wild dogs has caught a kudu near a watering hole. They have nearly finished devouring the carcass when a lone bull elephant turns up to take a drink. The ...
An African elephant can weigh around 12,000 pounds. That’s about 190,000 times heavier. Yet the elephant’s metabolism isn’t 190,000 times higher than the mouse’s. It’s closer to about 20,000 times ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.