WWF safeguards hundreds of species around the world, but we focus special attention on our flagship species: giant pandas, tigers, endangered whales and dolphins, rhinos, elephants, marine turtles and great apes.
Male giraffes (the tallest of all animals) can grow to more than eighteen feet tall, nearly five feet taller than African elephants (the second tallest animal.) With their long legs, long neck, and tawny brown patches, it would be easy to think the giraff
The elephant is the earth's largest land animal. Asian (also known as Indian) elephants are found in Southeast Asia, and can be distinguished by their arched back which is slightly taller than their shoulders or rump. African elephants (which live in Afri
The Savannah Elephant Voices Project studies elephant communication in Kenya's Amboseli National Park.
For the past twenty-five years, Cynthia Moss has been studying elephant families in Kenya.
"Asian elephants are endangered in the wild, where perhaps only about 30,000 still live in forests of south and southeast Asia.
"With the two finger-like points on the end of its trunk, an African elephant can pick up fruit the size of a marble -- or a branch a foot thick.
Built especially for elementary and middle-school students, this Animal Bytes site is my elephant pick of the day.
