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An elephant interacting with the familiarization box in behavioural study. (Hope et al., 2026, PLOS One via SWNS) By Stephen Beech Clever elephants can think before they act and resist impulsive ...

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Like humans, elephants are famously social creatures. But unlike teenage humans, Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) can think before they act. Scientists in Thailand discovered this after 16 Asian ...

One Sunday morning in late November, Tunde Morakinyo received an unexpected and urgent phone call. “The baby elephant will be here in two hours,” said his ANI Foundation colleague Peter Abanyam, who ...

A dying elephant draws a crowd, and the crowd does not leave when the breathing stops. In October 2003, a research team in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve watched a matriarch called Eleanor go down.

It’s been a summer of international visitors in Boston. First, the Tartan Army (an estimated 20,000 kilt-clad Scottish fans, as rowdy as they were endearing, in Boston for the World Cup). And now, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Hello Products Parents shopping for "naturally friendly" toothpaste for young children are often trying to avoid ...

Elephant sculptures in "The Great Elephant Migration" make their way along Commonwealth Avenue Mall. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) A herd of 100 life-sized elephants has just arrived on Commonwealth Avenue ...

For days, we met farmers as they prepared for the spring rice sowing season in central Sri Lanka. They told me and my Sri Lankan colleague Susitha Fernando about elephants trampling their crops, and ...

One hundred Indian elephants have migrated to Boston, Massachusetts, for a weekslong stay. The art installation, handcrafted by indigenous artisans from India's Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, will be on ...