Researchers at the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College have found that Asian elephants can suppress impulsive behaviors and adjust their actions when circumstances change—a cognitive ability that ...
Found mainly in the forests of Borneo, the Bornean elephant is smaller than other Asian elephants but faces a much bigger ...
Correction: A previous version of this news release incorrectly stated the square footage of the Elephant Trails exhibit. Altogether, it is 10,642.6 square meters (114,442.2 square feet). The ...
African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...
Asian elephant calf Linh Mai will make her public debut at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute this Earth Day, April 22. She was born Feb. 2 to mother Nhi Linh and father ...
Elephant spraying water cooling off on a hot day, Image shows a rescued female Asian elephant at the elephant kingdom sanctuary using her trunk to cover herself in ...
A female Asian elephant calf was born Feb. 2 to mother Nhi Linh and father Spike at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. NOTE: B-roll and photos of the calf will be ...
DNA testing proves that Borneo pygmy elephants are an indigenous and distinct subspecies, with different characteristics from their Asian elephant cousins on mainland Asia and Sumatra. Petaling Jaya, ...
How do you train an Asian elephant to voluntarily participate in trunk washes, blood draws and other medical exams? By building their trust and rewarding their participation with treats! These ...
African elephants are the largest land animals on earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...