An African elephant named Butch samples a generous spread of watermelon, bananas, pineapple, and cantaloupe while keepers ...

African elephant populations are sometimes thought to differ only by the location of the animals, but, evolutionarily speaking, forest and savannah elephants are as separate genetically as Asian ...

Elephants have fascinated people for centuries, and the more scientists study them, the more impressive they seem. Their intelligence, physical abilities, and social lives reveal a level of complexity ...

People have had a devastating impact on African elephant and rhino numbers, but in parts of Africa we’re helping these amazing animals to recover People have had a devastating impact on African ...

In 2009, a large, lone elephant called Alexander died beside a road in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. Over the next few ...

In the largest genomic mapping of Africa's elephants to date, an international team of researchers shows that elephant history is defined by the ability to move across large distances and exchange ...

African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...