Signals used by elephants to manage competitive play sessions provide hints to the roots of empathy in social mammals.

Elephants are pretty amazing, aren’t they?Aside from their famously impressive memory, the highly social animals can also ...

Elephants are among the largest mammals on Earth. They are loved by many for their intelligence and varied personalities.

The elephant has a secret hiding right on its nose. Its famous trunk, full of muscle and devoid of bone, can move in a virtually infinite number of directions and is capable of performing an array ...

African elephants in particular have particularly prominent neuron clusters for the control of the trunk "fingers." One of the most remarkable body parts in the animal kingdom is the elephant trunk.

African elephants have thicker whiskers than Asian elephants and African elephants have approximately 1.7 times more whiskers than Asian elephants on their trunk tips.

Working closely with keepers at Zoo Atlanta, the researchers videotaped how Kelly, a 34-year-old female African elephant weighing over 7,400 pounds, grabbed different types of food.When presented ...

Why is the elephant trunk so wrinkly? It sounds like the start of one of Aesop’s fables. But in a new study in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers offer up some answers. This all ...

People have reported that African elephants avoid land mines in Angola and in 2015, ... But in an elephant trunk, there are no bones to pull and no joints to hinge on.

Several months ago, the young African elephant and her mother were shot at by farmers while walking in Botswana. Some of the bullets from the farmers' shotguns tore through Lerumo's trunk, leaving ...