(CNN) - The death of a pregnant wild elephant, suspected to have been fatally injured after eating fruit stuffed with firecrackers that exploded in her mouth, has stirred public outrage in India as ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Iain Douglas-Hamilton, a British-born zoologist and conservationist who dedicated much of his life to ...

The dynamics of Asian elephant relationships are slightly different from those of the African elephants. Females live in small, fluid groups without a clear dominance hierarchy or matriarchal leader.

Engineer-turned-conservationist Seema Lokhandwala has developed an AI-powered device that listens for elephant vocalizations and plays sounds like tiger roars or buzzing bees to drive herds away from ...

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 ...

What’s in a name? People use unique names to address each other, but we’re one of only a handful of animal species known to do that, including bottlenose dolphins. Finding more animals with names and ...

Scientists used AI to find elephants likely have unique names for each other. Machine learning analyzed hundreds of elephant calls recorded in Kenya between 1986 and 2022. Elephants' ability to ...

Pauline Costes receives funding from the IBEES Initiative of Sorbonne Université (E. Pouydebat). An elephant uses its trunk for eating, drinking water, communicating, exploring the environment, social ...