Asian elephants can tell if we pay attention by watching our face and body direction. This shows elephants think deeply about ...

Along India’s Bay of Bengal, migrating elephants have arrived in a farming community — and they’re destroying livelihoods while they’re at it. But it hasn’t been easy for the elephants, either.

With their massive flapping ears and long trunks, it isn't hard to believe that elephants tend to rely on acoustic and ...

I’m always leery of claims that humans are uniquely exceptional, that we are better than nonhuman animals (animals) at dealing with the demands of our daily lives, that we are more highly evolved, ...

You wouldn't imagine that elephants would be scared of much, considering their size, but it seems they are terrified of bees. Now, this fear is being used to thwart human-elephant conflict, helping to ...

Zoo elephants were the source of a tuberculosis outbreak in 2013 in Multnomah County, Ore., according to a recent article in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The public health ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV/Gray News) - The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that elephants do not have the same rights as humans. The ruling comes after the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a lawsuit ...

As human-caused sound gets louder around the world, some animals change their behavior and many creatures suffer health ...

Scientists have recently shed some light on exactly why elephants, one of the biggest animals on the planet, paradoxically experience unusually low rates of cancer. The research found these remarkable ...