African elephant in musth. You can tell he’s in musth by the liquid (temporin) being secreted from the temporal glands in his face. Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The ...

Within these familial units, elephants display an incredible capacity for empathy, often caring for injured or grieving group members. African elephant in musth. You can tell he’s in musth by the ...

In a 2,700-kilometer overland journey, the 35-year-old African elephant was transported via a large iron crate with thick bars strapped to a truck, a mission for which she had been trained for ...

In 1879, as Leopold was beginning his exploitation of Congo, he lit upon the idea of using elephants as pack animals to abet the forthcoming mass extraction. But not local African elephants — at ...

This is a monumental opportunity to end a crisis. It could be the breakthrough we’ve been waiting decades for, but only if we can act extremely quickly. African elephants are crashing towards ...

A new study uncovered how ancient land shifts allowed elephants to cross from Africa to Asia millions of years ago. Credit: Vaughan Leiberum / Flickr / CC BY 2.0 A slow geological shift deep beneath ...

On the Gates Foundation website, Ghanaian programmer Darlington Akogo talks about his mission to reduce the number of deaths in the West African nation, where there’s one doctor per 10,000 patients.

When a 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook the U.S. city of San Diego on April 14, a video showing five African elephants ... time as he grows into an adult bull elephant,” Albright said.

This gradual uplift of land enabled the early ancestors of animals such as giraffes, elephants, rhinoceroses, cheetahs, and even humans, to roam between Africa and Asia. The appearance of the land ...