African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...

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 ...

Catching elephants -- Powers of trunk and mind -- Muddy exodus -- A counterpoint in Africa -- Breakable chains -- Strange behaviors -- Camps and villages -- Pencil lines on a map -- Flood relief ...

Working together A study of elephants has found they not only aced a test of their intelligence and ability to cooperate, they found new ways to complete it. The study, published in the latest ...

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 ...

Jan. 26 (UPI) --A tiny baby elephant found itself stuck in a muddy puddle and had no way out until its family came to its rescue and saved it. Jolandi De Klerk witnessed this moment of an elephant ...

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 ...