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, Asian ...

Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to helping people and elephants get along. That's the central finding of new ...

UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences’ Shermin de Silva has spent the majority of her scientific career studying elep8ghants. An assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, Behavior and ...

Asian elephant Nhi Linh (foreground) is pregnant and due to give birth between mid-January and early March 2026 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Male Spike ...

Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers describing them as “compassionate.” Wildlife researchers have, for decades, ...

A six-year study suggests that the success of conservation efforts to revive the Asian elephant population in Central India may be intersecting with human-caused habitat loss to increase risks to ...

Elephants are fascinating and highly intelligent creatures. In this heart-warming YouTube clip, we get to see a herd of captive Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) racing towards a new arrival at the ...

An elephant never forgets, the saying goes. They certainly have remarkable brains, with about three times as many neurons as we have. Anatomically, their brains look like a caricature of ours. The ...

Elephants separated by miles of dense forest or open savanna stay in contact through deep rumbles that drop below the threshold of human hearing. These infrasonic calls, with frequency components ...

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, Asian ...