Knowledge evolves but orthodoxies often prevail. For instance, chimpanzees were thought unable to use tools until Jane ...

Moving large animals around is a seductive idea in conservation. If there are plenty of animals in one place and too few in ...

When an elephant dies, its body slowly breaks down, releasing nutrients into the soil that eventually nourish the grass ...

Elmo and friends discover just how noisy the African savanna can be after dark — from roaring lions and grumbling hippos to ...

This is the breathtaking moment hundreds of elephants and other wild animals descend on a valley in a decades-old tradition ...

Wild African elephants appear to use body movements as deliberate signals. They watch other elephants before and during gestures.

Elephants call out to each other using individual names that they invent for their fellow pachyderms, according to a new ...

Learn how elephants use their trunks and ears to get a response from others, and why they keep gesturing when ignored.

Scientists discover the complex moves elephants use to tell their herd mates to back off without getting into a fight!

In the East-Central African language of Swahili, the word “mkutano” means gathering with purpose. At the San Diego Zoo Safari ...

African elephants are animals that live by walking slowly through vast savannas and woodlands, and their presence is so ...