Researchers reported that the animals are capable of making very deliberate gestures to communicate their desire for more.

Kathryn Jones is on a mission to read every plaque in every D.C.-area Smithsonian. While she didn’t start the project for posterity, proposed cuts to the institution give her experiment extra weight.

Home » Wildlife » How Elephants Remember Each Other After Decades Apart In the sprawling African savanna or dense Asian forests, two elderly elephant matriarchs meet after twenty years apart. Their ...

Asian and African elephants, though related, exhibit key differences. African elephants are larger with fan-shaped ears and tusks in both sexes, inhabiting savannas.

In the case of African elephants, there are only very few cases in which domestication was even partially successful. It is much more difficult to habituate African elephants to human company than ...

An interview with Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants director Fern Levitt about her documentary that inspires us to change our minds about animals in captivity.

An elephant in South Africa’s Kruger National Park trampled a tourist to death as he was trying to protect children, officials say. The incident Sunday involving 59-year-old Shaik Adam Shabir ...

Unless you know what to look for, you may not notice the differences between an African elephant vs. Asian elephant. These two elephant species belong to different genuses and have many ...

Satellite evidence bolsters case that climate change caused mass elephant die-off New analysis showing carcass distribution and algae in watering holes points to climate-induced poisoning of over ...

They're the largest animals walking the Earth, but scientists at Colorado State University in the US warn that African elephants are heading for extinction.

Osh, the Oakland Zoo's last African elephant was recently moved from California to an Tennessee's Elephant Sanctuary. How the 15,000-pound animal made the 2,250-mile journey.