Understanding how elephants use their trunks to pick up small objects could lead to robots designed with flexible hands or grippers, according to a new study that includes Rochester Institute of ...

As South Africa’s elephants swell from 500 to 3,000 in the Associated Private Nature Reserves, the debate rages over how to ...

Scientists recorded a 47 percent drop in breeding females in South Georgia’s three largest elephant seal colonies after bird ...

Research shows that elephants rely on frequencies of 10Hz or less to detect and communicate with other herds, and that they are especially sensitive to vibrations passing through the ground. Most park ...

BENGALURU, India (WKRC) - A new study is shedding light on Asian elephant behavior, and the scientists behind the study used an unconventional method to collect the data. YouTube videos may not be the ...

Indiana University researcher Daniella Chusyd is studying human aging in an unlikely way: through elephants. Humans and elephants have similar lifespans, with elephants capable of living into their ...

Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

When scientists study elephant communications, they often focus on females, and for seemingly good reason: Previous research had found that only females were socially integrated enough for individual ...

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 ...

Elephants possess a suite of unique physiological traits and reproductive adaptations that are key to their survival and ecological success. Their complex endocrine systems govern behaviours such as ...

Research on the rumbles of wild elephants suggest that these animals address each other with unique, name-like vocalizations. (Story aired on All Things Considered on June 10, 2024.) Some wild African ...