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 ...

Elephants investigate and revisit the remains of their dead for years — a biologist explains the real science behind this eerie, grief-like behavior.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Reunion That Started the Questions In 1999, two Asian elephants named Shirley and Jenny were placed in the same enclosure ...

Explore elephants in the wild! Learn about African and Asian elephant differences, trunks, tusks, eating/drinking habits, social behaviors, and their love for muddy water. MAGA divided as Trump turns ...

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 ...

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 ...