Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers ...

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. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ASHEBORO, N.C. — Katherine Kastl knows the ...

Sept. 13 (UPI) --Fear is a powerful motivator. In parts of Africa, the fear of poachers has inspired new behavioral patterns among elephants. When researchers from the University of Twente, in the ...

From tens of thousands of hours of observation, scientists have compiled a detailed library of African elephant behavior. Joyce Poole, a foremost expert in elephant behavior, and her husband, Petter ...

By Ryan Truscott Elephants are considered a sacred totem by many in northwestern Zimbabwe, but they also frequently raid villagers’ crops near harvest time, says Agripa Ngorima, who has studied ...

Stories of unique and sentient interactions between elephants and their dead are a familiar part of the species' lore, but a comprehensive study of these interactions has been lacking -- until now. A ...

Learn more about the death rituals seen throughout the animal kingdom and whether or not animals grieve the same way humans ...

Fitness tracking is all the rage right now. If you want to, you can monitor your heart rate, count your footsteps and calories burned, and even monitor your sleep patterns, all by using devices that ...

A line of elephants trundles across a dusty landscape in northern Botswana, ears flapping and trunks occasionally brushing the ground. As they pass a motion-activated camera hidden in low shrubbery, ...

Thailand's most revered animal — the wild Asian elephant — has now become one of the country's biggest problems. Decades of deforestation and overdevelopment of natural habitat is pushing wild ...