While sipping tea one morning and enjoying the expansive view of a water hole from my 25-foot-tall research tower, I could see a storm of epic proportions brewing. My colleagues, students, volunteers ...

Source: Esin Üstün, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Decades of research have emphasized the importance of matriarchs in leading elephant herds. A herd, made up of related female ...

Male elephants use infrasonic rumbles to signal group departures, revealing complex vocal coordination and strong social bonds. The bull elephants gather in the evening coolness to drink. After a ...

Ali, a 34-year-old male bull elephant, underwent a tusk removal procedure — the equivalent of a cavity filling in humans Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens Ali the bull elephant, who used to reside at ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

A big male bull elephant stretches up his trunk to feed on a favourite food, the fruit of the sausage tree, properly known as the Kigelia tree. The sausage shaped fruits are as hard as concrete!© ...

My colleagues, students, volunteers and I were at Mushara, a remote water source in Namibia’s Etosha National Park, to study the dynamics of an all-male society, bull elephant style. I’d been coming ...

The bull elephants gather in the evening coolness to drink. After a spell, a senior male lifts his head and turns from the waterhole. With ears flapping gently, he lets out a deep, resonant rumble.