If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

The Elephant Sanctuary, in Hohenwald, celebrated its 30th anniversary in March, marking three decades of adopting former circus and show elephants and allowing them to retire in peaceful wilderness.

We might have big brains and fancy gadgets, but some animals are wired with senses straight out of a sci-fi script. We're ...

There's a brutal execution method which would give you 'one of the worst deaths in history', and it's basically letting an ...

Out in the wild, there's a whole cast of creatures that seem to carry the weight of the world on their furry, feathered, or ...

“In many of these situations, the zoos and owners are making decisions because their elephants are getting older, and they really want them to have socialization opportunities that they might ...

Elephants also know the smell of wheat flour. And they love it, Nikson said. When we have flour or roti in our kitchens, they try to enter from our backyards, try to break into our homes, and take the ...

You may have heard of yoga ... they now twirl hay with their trunks, kind of like spaghetti on a fork, and scoop it into their mouths. Even though the elephants are not doing any downward dogs ...

An elephant ranch in Florida is offering yoga classes for veterans to help them with trauma. From the other side of a fence, retired elephants eat and mosey around.