Elephants, the largest land animals on the planet, are among the most exuberantly expressive of creatures. Joy, anger, grief, compassion, love; the finest emotions reside within these hulking masses.

Forget what you’ve seen in pretty much every cartoon containing an elephant ... there’s lots of evidence to suggest that elephants display very complex emotions and even grieve.

Why do elephants mourn their dead? And what does this reveal about the depths of animal emotion? Elephants are renowned for their poignant and elaborate mourning rituals when a member of their ...

Incredible images abound in Victoria Stone and Mark Deeble’s “The Elephant Queen,” which follows a herd of elephants led by a giant Athena. The nature documentary joins the matriarch of the ...

LITTLE ROCK — In 1977, when the Little Rock Zoo’s first elephant, Ruth, died at an age-appropriate 65, the junior cow, Ellen, let out a scream that alerted zoo director C.B. “Bird Dog ...

Recently, the organization shared a video of tour guides-in-training coming face-to-face with an elephant, and as one viewer put it, it was “every single emotion in one moment.” The clip opens ...

The Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives that November, and Nast bemoaned the defeat in another cartoon. It showed an elephant caught in a trap set by a donkey, and the ...

Mundi the African elephant was the pride of Puerto Rico's only zoo. But her fate became entangled in the island's recent struggles with natural disasters and a debilitating debt crisis.