Elephants thrive in grasslands, savannahs, and forest areas where the weather is usually hot and dry. In order to protect their babies from the sun, adult elephants use their giant trunks to shower ...

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 ...

A desert matriarch leads her herd through The Hoanib, an ephemeral seasonal river in Namibia. Laura Manske: You’ve been filming elephants your entire adult life, ever since, at age 17, you became a ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Oregon Zoo elephants have some new logs to play with. Some giant logs from the World Forestry Center’s Peggy the Train display now have a new home in the zoo’s Elephant Lands ...