The elephants are not often photographed or filmed. Little is known of their behavior. The most recent estimate put the number of elephants within the rainforest at 214,000, and about 35 per cent of the continental total. There isn't enough light for a seedling to grow in the forst because of all the growth on top of it covering the sun. If often rains in the forests.
Elephants also live in the desert.
There is little rainfall but the elephants can dig with their tusks in dry river beds, far enough to find water. Many years ago there were many thousands elephants. Today, there are less than three-thousand left. The forest they once roamed have been cut down for farms and other man made things. The very few forests that are left have been turned into National Parks aren't big enough for the elephants.