Elephants seem easy to figure out with their big bodies, long trunks, and always walking in slow groups. But they’re not simple animals. Behind the usual facts are habits, abilities, and instincts ...

Elephants have a strong memory — they never forget. Image Credit: Unsplash They can recognize themselves in mirrors — rare in ...

Reeling from a break-up, a woman flew half-way around the world to seek comfort from the person who knows her best.

Elephants are the largest land mammals on Earth, both in size and weight. The African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) holds the record as the biggest, with adult males reaching up to 13 feet ...

The cornerstone of elephant communication is infrasound—low-frequency rumbles below 20 Hz that humans cannot hear without specialized equipment. These sound waves can travel through the ground for ...

With her petite stature, short trunk, larger ears and long tail, the Bornean elephant is markedly smaller than the rest. She’s also the only one of her kind on the entire North American ...

An elephant's trunk has close to 40,000 muscles, and as it’s reaching out to smell you, it can knock you down flat. Spike, a 38-year-old bull, ambled in from the yard.

Elephant ears are designed to keep the body cool. The ears’ large size also gives elephants remarkable hearing. Researchers think the large outer ear may help direct sounds to the inner ear, ... From ...

A strangulated bellow, like an experimental jazz trumpet, sounds in retort, and I open my eyes to see an elephant, flapping its ears and raising its trunk in alarm on the ground below.

Trunk wrinkles form exponentially fast long before birth Even a baby elephant, like this newborn Asian elephant ( Elephas maximus ), has a well-wrinkled trunk, which is so much more useful than ...

On World Elephant Day, Every year August 12, is celebrated as World Elephant Day across the globe to reaffirm mankind`s collective pledge to conserve one of the most iconic species on the planet.