The elephants trunk is their nose, it's extra long and has many purposes such as: drinking, reaching for food, breathing, and they even use it as snorkel when swimming. There are three species of ...

On top of this, loss of habitat, human-elephant conflict, and political instability provide significant long-term challenges to their survival. Importantly, despite compelling genetic research ...

The species only uses two to three types of trees, and an increasing population of elephants in Kruger National Park are pushing them over and destroying nesting sites. Dr Murn warned ...

Our current focus is on historical populations of Asian elephants that lived in the Near East, far to the west of the species’ current range in the Indian subcontinent and south-east Asia. We studied ...

Elephants have long captured human imagination in art and culture, and scientists have long sought to understand them. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) study African ...