As villagers watched, officials used an excavator to dig down to the elephant, which had fallen in as a herd passed through the area during the night. The local fire department also lent a hand to ...

Elephants have distinct names for each other just like humans do, say researchers at Colorado State University who've been studying wild African elephants. One of the study’s authors, George Wittemyer ...

South African couple Ilza de Wet, 50, and her husband Johan de Wet, 53, were on vacation in the Kruger National Park when they caught the elephant using an enormous anthill to scratch an itch on its ...

Populations of the African forest and savanna elephant have declined sharply. The populations of Africa's elephants are now in more danger than they ever have been. The African forest elephant is now ...

Elephants are considered a sacred totem by many in northwestern Zimbabwe, but they also frequently raid villagers’ crops near ...

Elephants are the largest existing land animal, with massive bodies, large ears, and long trunks. Elephants’ long trunks are multifunctional. They are used to pick up objects, trumpet warnings, greet ...

(CBS LOCAL) - A new idea to save elephants starts with a camera - a thermal camera, that is. Researchers at Zoological Society of London (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo, the UK's largest zoo, hope those images ...

Editor’s Note: “The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper” features an inside look at the fatal conflict playing out between elephants and mankind in Sri Lanka. “Elephant Vs. Man” with CNN's Nick Paton ...

Authorities in Botswana are dragging their heels in efforts to investigate the sudden death of at least 350 elephants in the space of two months, conservationists told Business Insider. It is not ...

Over the past four years, a distinctive kind of cavalry has been playing an important role in Myanmar’s ongoing civil war. These mounted units consist of around 200 elephants and their mahouts ...

The much anticipated results of the largest ever continent-wide wildlife survey, the Great Elephant Census, will be released tomorrow at the World Conservation Congress in Hawaii. The worrying finding ...