Desert elephants at the dried up Huab River in NamibiaFemale spraying sand to keep cool while standing guard over her calf, Damaraland, Namibia
Desert elephants or desert-adapted elephants are not a distinct species of elephant but are African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana) that have made their homes in the Namib and Sahara deserts in Africa. Previously they were classified as a subspecies of the African bush elephant, but this is no longer the case. Desert-dwelling elephants were once more widespread in Africa than they are at present; they are currently found only in Namibia and Mali. They tend to migrate from one waterhole to another following traditional routes which depend on the seasonal availability of food and water. They face being threatened by poaching and from changes in land use by humans.
Desertelephants or desert-adapted elephants are not a distinct species of elephant but are African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana) that have made...
Elephants are the largest living land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African...
habitat, from the Namib Desert to boulder-strewn outcrops in South Africa to thick forest. One species, the North African elephant shrew, remains in the...
several desert-dwelling species, most notably a population of desertelephants that are sometimes classified as a distinct subspecies of African elephants because...
kilometres (280 mi), the river provides water for species such as the rare desertelephant, as well as giraffe, mountain zebra and the largest population of free-roaming...
in the Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, Great Basin Desert, and Chihuahuan Desert, as well as the Colorado Plateau. Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, Joshua...
(such as gemsboks and springboks), ostriches, and in some areas even desertelephants or lions. All these species have developed techniques to survive in...
The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), also known as the African savanna elephant, is one of two extant African elephant species and one of three...
moisture through the desert and are home to animals including elephants, black rhinos, and giraffe. Other than those the area is ancient desert sand, moistened...
The Sonoran Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Sonora) is a hot desert in North America and ecoregion that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora,...
with black volcanic rocks make the elephants walking below them seem tiny. The Huab is well known for its Desertelephant population which endangers farming...
Execution by elephant, or Gunga Rao, was a method of capital punishment in South and Southeast Asia, particularly in India, where Asian elephants were used...
"Nellie the Elephant" is a children's song written in 1956 by Ralph Butler and Peter Hart about a fictional anthropomorphic elephant of that name. The...
the Namib Desert, the Southwest Arid, and the Southern Savanna Woodland. In particular, the Namib Desert is home to the endemic desertelephant and the...
last true wilderness areas in Namibia. One of the last settlements of desertelephants, it is characterised by strong wind and water eroded, weathered stone...
deformities. He was first exhibited at a freak show under the stage name "the Elephant Man", and then went to live at the London Hospital, in Whitechapel, after...
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smoke trees (Psorothamnus spinosus). The Yuma desert is the northern edge of the distributions of the Elephant Tree (Bursera microphylla) and the Blue Baja...
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), covering much of Botswana...
The phrase seeing the elephant is an Americanism which refers to gaining experience of the world at a significant cost. It was a popular expression of...
investigate the plight of the desertelephant. Although saved from extinction by the banning of the ivory trade, the desertelephants now face a new threat....
animals in the Kalahari Desert and Zambia. She wrote about Africa in her memoirs Cry of the Kalahari, The Eye of the Elephant, and Secrets of the Savanna...
Hours (2016), Television Themes (2018), Phantom Birds (2020) and The Blue Elephant (2021). The most recent five have been released on Eddie Piller's Acid...
murdered as many as sixty women from Arizona and New Mexico while living in Elephant Butte, New Mexico. Ray was convicted of kidnapping and torture in 2001...
Atlantic coastal desert, Sahara desert, and Arabian desert, separates the Palearctic and Afrotropic ecoregions. This scheme includes these desert ecoregions...
The Green Elephant (Russian: Зелёный слоник, romanized: Zelyonyy slonik, also known as Green Elephant Calf) is a 1999 Russian psychedelic exploitation...
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