In "Caged Fury," a group of adventurers embarks on a daring expedition in the African jungle to capture ... showcasing their unique adaptations and instincts. As the explorers devise clever ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The intricate web of cracks and crevices that gives African elephants their distinctive look is, in fact, an essential ...

There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions and very marked ... We hypothesise that ‘intermediate’-looking animals are a result of hybridisation, or the adaptation of some ...

A video shot of their enclosure at the park Monday morning shows the five African elephants standing around in the morning sun before the camera shakes and they run in different directions.

This means that they have special features that help them to survive. An African elephant, for example, lives in a hot habitat and has very large ears that it flaps to keep cool. A polar bear ...

Unlike most mammals, elephants don’t sweat. They can’t afford the water loss. The African elephant has the largest ears of any animal, accounting for 20% of their overall surface area.