An African elephant who lived in isolation for over two decades in a zoo in India died of a rare rodent-borne virus, an autopsy report revealed. Shankar, the 29-year-old elephant, is said to have died ...

Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers describing them as “compassionate.” Wildlife researchers have, for decades, ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A post-mortem exam has concluded a 3-year-old African elephant that died at the Louisville Zoo earlier this year had a common complication of colic. The zoo, in a release ...

An African elephant who lived in isolation for over two decades in a zoo in India died of a rare rodent-borne virus, an autopsy report revealed. Shankar, the 29-year-old elephant, is said to have died ...