A new study has revealed that African elephants have an extraordinary ability to meet their colossal food requirements as ...

Similarly, water sources play a key role in where they choose to go. However, individual elephants can respond to water ...

Massive and energy-hungry, elephants face real challenges in navigating their landscapes. New research using over two decades of GPS data reveals they make surprisingly strategic decisions to conserve ...

Pupy, the last African elephant remaining at the former Buenos Aires Zoo has begun training for her journey to an elephant ...

Protecting remaining strongholds and minimising human impacts on food sources will be crucial to avoiding further population ...

Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant's teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. Geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or tusks reveal where ...

"We now hope to expand this methodology across Cambodia and beyond, helping to build a clearer picture of Asian elephant ...

Thomas said these tiny animal ambassadors play a special part in drawing the public’s attention ... dad and baby — are in the Elephant Odyssey section, between the lion and elephant habitats ...

Yet, their gentle demeanor should not overshadow the fact that they are powerful animals capable of demonstrating assertiveness when feeling threatened or provoked. Asian Elephant. ©energepic.com on ...

Elephants have good memories, but what about you? Take this quiz to find out how much you know about elephants.

Present-day elephants are the biggest land animals. The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) weighs over 10 tons and is up to 13 feet tall. Their Asian relatives, Elephas maximus, rank next on ...

In many cases, scientists have seen elephants touching, caressing, sniffing, and nudging a deceased elephant with their trunks. While nobody can know for certain what’s going on inside the animals’ ...