Elephants thrive in grasslands, savannahs, and forest areas where the weather is usually hot and dry. In order to protect their babies from the sun, adult elephants use their giant trunks to shower ...

African elephant populations are sometimes thought to differ only by the location of the animals, but, evolutionarily speaking, forest and savannah elephants are as separate genetically as Asian ...

NEED TO KNOW • Veer the elephant was rescued by Wildlife SOS after decades of neglect and forced labor in India • The 26-year ...

BELA-BELA, South Africa — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. There are three species of elephants: the African savanna or bush ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No one is happier than a baby elephant, especially one that is celebrating a major life accomplishment. Just take this baby ...

By Mike DiGirolamo Khatijah Rahmat, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in ...

The death of Craig, a widely known super tusker from Amboseli, drew attention not just because of his fame, but because he lived long enough to die of natural causes in a period when elephants with ...

Source: Cari Zuckerman, used with permission. Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.-A.A.Milne Over the past months, we have been listening to workers engaged in ...