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Have you ever seen an elephant do a handstand? Well, one member of the Houston Zoo's elephant herd does them every single day. Her name is Tess and at nearly 40 years of age, she can lift her ...
She recently posted about a rescued elephant who had gone through so much mistreatment. After only one week of being in a safe environment where they were free to just be, this elephant has made a ...
In the northeastern village of Ban Ta Klang in Thailand, Siriporn Sapmak starts her day by doing a livestream of her two elephants on social media to raise money to survive. It is a new - and ...
Like many people, Willie Davenport has a love for animals, especially for Boo, who has been like a member of his family for years. Boo, though, isn't like most household animals. For one, she ...
Volunteering with elephants isn't about riding them like jungle royalty, or just about tossing sugarcane for selfies. Ethical ...
While studying elephant families, Moss and Poole have, in a sense, created their own scientific family. “The way they work together and do everything as a unit—that’s the lesson,” says behavioral ...
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 ...
Around 12 of the 83 Namibian elephants earmarked for the cull, however, will be killed by trophy hunters, Romeo Muyunda, spokesperson for Namibia’s Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism ...