Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to ...

A former zoo owner, Frank Thompson, brought Connie to the U.S. with seven other elephant babies who were orphaned in Zimbabwe in 1987 when poachers killed the adults in the herd for their tusks.

The Neighbour at the Gate at Sydney’s National Art School Gallery presents a thoughtful examination of the consequences when ...

Researchers found that the animals are capable of using their trunks to make a range of gestures that express their ...

UP’s veterinary team performs Cambodia’s first tusk extraction on an elephant, marking a milestone in global wildlife ...

Zelda Venter The University of Pretoria’s (UP) veterinary team came to the rescue of a distressed Cambodian elephant with a fractured tusk by performing the first extraction of this kind.Dealing with ...

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. Elephant ivory is often passed off as mammoth ivory when being imported. As the ...

Elephants African Bush Elephants take mud baths for sun protection. ©I, Mgiganteus, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons – Original / License Scientists have discovered that elephants have special ...

The two young male Asian elephants play in the pool at The Harry and Linda Fath Elephant Trek at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, Wednesday, June 25. The five-acre habitat offers various ...

Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory. Since the two types look deceptively similar, law ...

A new forensic test could help identify poached elephant ivory being disguised and smuggled as legal mammoth tusks.