Elephants are known for being wildly intelligent and incredibly social. They’re also one of the few animals — aside from humans — that grieve for their dead. They form tight social bonds with their ...

George Wittemyer receives funding from the U.S.A. National Science Foundation and Save the Elephants, a Kenya based non-profit organization. He is a professor at Colorado State University and ...

Elephants have an "extraordinary" ability to meet their colossal food needs as efficiently as possible, reveals new research. Data from more than 150 African elep h ants shows that the iconic species ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic ...

Many key differences separate African elephants from Asian elephants. Not only are they found in completely separate parts of the world, but they live in different habitats as well. The African ...

Are you fascinated by the beauty and power of the largest land mammal in the world? Ever wondered what it is like to be up close and personal with a big yet graceful elephant? A true adventure surely ...

he conflict between elephants and humans in Malaysia is not new, but in recent years, it has become increasingly serious, particularly in Peninsular Malaysia, including Perak. This first article in a ...

In April 2024, Botswana’s then-president, Mokgweetsi Masisi, made headlines for his government’s threat to send 30,000 elephants to Germany and the United Kingdom so that Europeans could try ...

In 1930, as many as 10 million wild elephants roamed huge swaths of the African continent. But decades of poaching and conflict have since decimated African elephant populations. In 2016, experts ...

Farmers are turning bees into unexpected helpers to keep elephants off their crops. Around the world, spreading farmland is increasingly overlapping with elephant habitats, often resulting in ...

Protesters yesterday blocked the PAB Road in Chattogram's Karnaphuli upazila for six hours after a three-month-old child died in an elephant attack. The child, Arman Zawad, son of Md Ibrahim ...

For the fifth edition of the Dubai Pooram at the Etisalat Academy Ground in Dubai on December 2, 2024, four elephants were paraded in all their festive regalia. Gently swaying, shaking their heads ...