A wild elephant wandered out of a national park in Thailand to visit a grocery store, where the peckish pachyderm feasted on ...

The Great Elephant Migration is a global traveling exhibit of towering elephant sculptures made by The Real Elephant ...

Two years ago, avian influenza ravaged elephant seal colonies in South America. Are the colonies on the northern Pacific ...

Elephants in warmer climates need larger ears to stay cool. That’s why African elephants, who live in hotter regions, have much larger ears than their Asian counterparts. The bigger the ear, the ...

The retired elephants of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will be moving to a spacious new home at a Florida conservation center next year, concluding a journey that began in 2015 when ...

Elephant ears are unique. African elephants have large ears. Asian elephants have smaller ears. Ears help regulate body temperature. They also enhance hearing. Elephants use ears for communication.

A team of doctors and vets in Pakistan has developed a novel treatment for a pair of elephants suffering from tuberculosis that involves feeding them at least 400 pills a day. The jumbo effort by ...

Elephant caregivers play an important role in their society by comforting and teaching babies when mom is occupied. Allomothers, aka "nannies," play an important role in elephant society by ...

From cooling their massive bodies to strengthening social bonds, elephants use mud baths as a versatile tool to stay ...

While many people are fascinated by nonhuman animals, most do not have the time, money, or opportunity to travel to remote natural habitats where these animals live freely. Instead, zoos relocate ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless ...

A lawsuit is seeking to stop Los Angeles Zoo officials from shipping their two surviving elephants to another zoo in Oklahoma. Cher and other advocates want them to go to an animal sanctuary.