Videos show how African elephants may be the first nonhuman species to use vocal name-like identifiers for each other, suggesting "the capacity for some degree of symbolic thought," researchers said.

The iconic elephant had been speared in the head. "The 47-year-old elephant knew he needed help and went to where he would be able to get it," The Dodo wrote.

Saturday marked a momentous occasion at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida, where officials announced an African elephant calf was born at the park for the first time in seven years.

The African elephant struck zookeeper Joaquin Gutierrez Arnaiz throwing him onto the iron bars of her enclosure at Cabarceno Natural Park.

HOHENWALD, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee is mourning the sudden death of one of their African elephants.