Elephants in populations that lost or lack older individuals tend to have a lower chance of survival, spend less time with others and respond less accurately to threats, says behavioral ecologist Lucy ...

A growing body of peer-reviewed research is documenting how rising temperatures and human activity are altering animal ...

There are about 1,000 tiny hairs on an elephant’s rugged trunk, all designed to help the animal feel, a new study found.

Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers describing them as “compassionate.” Wildlife researchers have, for decades, ...

Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to helping people and elephants get along. That's the central finding of new ...

Elephants are incredibly intelligent and social animals with several sophisticated methods of communication. They use all their senses — hearing, sight, touch, and smell — to interact within their own ...

Researchers developed an advanced AI system named YORU that can identify specific animal behaviors with over 90% accuracy ...