Elephants are incredibly intelligent and social animals with several sophisticated methods of communication. They use all ...

Elephants have the largest ears in the animal kingdom, and there's a practical reason for that.

But, have you ever heard of an elephant ear? The sweet treat is popular around the country but not so much in Texas. The light, crispy on the outside but soft on the inside treat is similar to a ...

This not only dwarfs the amount of neurons controlling Asian elephant ears, it is nearly 3,000 more neurons than are needed to operate the entire human face.

When studying elephant social groups, the human observer can often ascertain the relationships among the elephants based on how they greet each other, Eleuteri said.

The extinction rate of these animals increased fivefold when early humans evolved around 1.8 million years ago, the study concludes, and rose even higher when modern humans appeared.

Elephant rumbles can be difficult for the human ear to differentiate, so the researchers used machine learning analysis: Essentially, they relied on A.I. to break down different elephant calls.

Their job is to keep the peace amid a worsening and at times deadly conflict between humans and the world's largest land animal in the town of Livingstone, Zambia.

But humans are not just unfamiliar with the context of elephant communication, they also often tend to be poor at picking up on visual cues. “Most mammals who can see are more aware of their ...

What an Elephant’s Brain Reveals About Its Trunk Elephants have tens of thousands of facial neurons, more than any other land mammal ...

Elephants have the largest ears in the animal kingdom, and there's a practical reason for that.