Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this undated photo, an African elephant matriarch leads her calf away from danger in northern Kenya. A new study in Nature ...

Humans can interact with each other using language and other perceivable methods, but what about animals? What do animals do when they need to communicate their needs to humans? Some light was shed on ...

Population in peril: African elephant numbers have dropped sharply, with forest elephants losing over 60% of their population in less than a decade. Human-elephant conflict: Encroachment on habitats ...

Research on the rumbles of wild elephants suggest that these animals address each other with unique, name-like vocalizations. (Story aired on All Things Considered on June 10, 2024.) Some wild African ...

Many key differences separate African elephant from Asian elephants. Not only are they found in completely separate parts of the world, but they live in different habitats as well. The African ...

Installation view of The Secret World of Elephants at the American Museum of Natural History showing how elephants' ears cool them. (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) Until I ...

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African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...