Male elephants have distinct characters, and certain individuals within the society are influential and can have a positive psychological impact on the group, according to new research. The study also ...

Elephants can make low rumbling sounds that humans cannot hear. Sound can be transmitted through air and through rock. Elephants can detect seismic (ground-transmitted) sound with fatty pads on their ...

A near-impenetrable plateau in Central Africa allowed elephants to hide from humans for years. The same landscape could also ...

Traipsing through entire clearings of trees may sound like it does more harm than good, but every time elephants pluck their favorite fruit and trample trees, they’re contributing to a cleaner ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. There are nearly 9,000 inland protected areas across the African continent, covering 4.37 million square kilometers (1.69 million square miles).

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 ...

Elephants experience all of the same emotions as we human beings, and they’re not bashful about expressing these feelings. Over the course of just a few hours, elephants will clearly demonstrate ...

Elephants wear their biology in plain sight. Those sweeping ears are not a decorative afterthought but a set of oversized tools that help a giant animal stay alive in hot, noisy, and often dangerous ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Sedgwick County Zoo says its five pregnant African elephants are doing wonderfully. The elephants are ...

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 ...