PRETORIA, SOUTH AFRICA – Conservation measures have successfully stopped declines in the African savanna elephant population across southern Africa, but the pattern varies locally, according to a new ...

Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to helping people and elephants get along. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Thailand is considered home to approximately 15% of the 52,000 Asian elephants currently living in the wild. Unfortunately, countless of these animals are suffering from physical and psychological ...

Elephants are considered a sacred totem by many in northwestern Zimbabwe, but they also frequently raid villagers’ crops near ...

These elephants work in the timber industry, where they pull and push logs out of the forest. This is a unique research environment and population that allows us to study many elephants living in ...

SPECIES SURVIVE. ELEPHANTS ARE MAJESTIC AND REGAL ANIMALS, BUT THEIR POPULATIONS IN THE WILD ARE DWINDLING. DOCTOR KATE EVANS, A ZOOLOGIST, HAS MADE IT HER LIFE’S WORK TO STUDY AND PROTECT THEM. IT IS ...

We are about a few hundred metres from Wildlife SOS’ Elephant Conservation and Care Centre (ECCC) in Mathura when we see an elephant, accompanied by a mahout, rushing in the direction of our taxi.

Researchers found that the animals are capable of using their trunks to make a range of gestures that express their intentions and wants. By Veronique Greenwood If you give an elephant an apple, she’s ...

Wild elephants seem to address each other using distinctive, rumbling sounds that could be akin to individual names. That's according to a provocative new study in the journal Nature Ecology & ...

Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to helping people and elephants get along. That's the central finding of new ...