Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers ...

Elephants have distinct names for each other just like humans do, say researchers at Colorado State University who've been studying wild African elephants. One of the study’s authors, George Wittemyer ...

When a 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook Southern California on Monday morning, one elephant herd did something extraordinary and heart-melting. At the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, a viral Instagram video ...

Elephants are the largest land animals worldwide, used in tourism in several countries, and are often gentle to humans despite their gigantic sizes. However, the elephant population has fallen greatly ...

As the popular saying goes, “An elephant never forgets — or does it? Elephants are intelligent mammals that can recall faces ...

Elephants are known for their intelligence, complex social behavior, memory and size, including their giant ears. The ears of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) can grow up to 6.6 feet (2 meters) ...

Elephants use their feet to sense vibrations in the ground. This is one of the ways that they "hear" the things happening around them. Humans and other animals actually have a similar sense. You might ...

More than a dozen Bornean elephants have been killed — including five beheaded — in Malaysia in the past 18 months, the ...

In this interview, elephant expert Ross MacPhee explains how the giant animals' tusks record every week of their lives and why their noses are so remarkable. When you purchase through links on our ...

If you ever get an opportunity to go to Thailand, chances are you'll come home with a souvenir with the country's national animal on it…the Asian elephant. Elephants are more than a point of pride in ...

Thailand's most revered animal — the wild Asian elephant — has now become one of the country's biggest problems. Decades of deforestation and overdevelopment of natural habitat is pushing wild ...