Communication is crucial for elephants that live in complex multi-tiered social systems. Apart from their iconic trumpets uttered through the trunk, Asian elephants also produce species-specific ...

Elephants learn to imitate sounds that are not typical of their species, the first known example after humans of vocal learning in a non-primate terrestrial mammal. The discovery, reported in today's ...

There are many instances on social media showing people being chased by wild elephants. In one viral video, two men run down a road with an elephant in close pursuit. The men are running as fast as ...

Working elephants of mountainous Myanmar and northeastern India haul timber or transport people by day, then return to the forest at night. In his new book titled for these elephants, Giants Of The ...

There are three types of elephants: the African forest elephant, the Asian elephant, and the African savanna (or bush) elephant. Elephants in the African savanna are larger than those in the African ...

Understanding elephants’ emotional lives reminds us that their well-being depends on respect, companionship, and freedom of ...

While live bees can be used as a deterrent to keep elephants away from farms, a new technology fills in for cases where a buzz without the sting is preferable. By Rachel Nuwer It’s a familiar, dreaded ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Jet, a male Asian elephant calf, was born about 4:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the St. Louis Zoo. Buchanan via St. Louis ...

Asian elephants are being forced out of their forest homes by logging, agricultural clearance and ill-planned development schemes. Mass movements of people and resettlement programmes have led to ...

A gourd time was had this week by Brazos, an Asian elephant at Texas’s Fort Worth Zoo, who celebrated his fourth birthday by ...

Everybody from a child knows that elephants trumpet. Over the past decades research in general and at the University of Vienna has mainly studied the elephants low-frequency rumble. Its fundamental ...