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

“These low-frequency sounds, termed ‘infrasounds,’ can travel several kilometers, and provide elephants with a ‘private’ ...

Question from my eight-year-old: Why are elephant ears so large?—@Shana_Johnson Elephants do many different things with their big ears. One thing is that they can cool themselves down when they are ...

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.

(Also see "'Talking' Whale Could Imitate Human Voice.") An Elephant With an Ear for Language To reach this conclusion, Stoeger and her team first had to verify that Koshik's sounds were words at all.

SEOUL, South Korea - An elephant in a South Korean zoo is using his trunk to pick up not only food, but also human vocabulary. An international team of scientists confirmed Friday what the ...

Elephants can recognize themselves in a mirror, joining only humans, apes and dolphins as animals that possess this kind of self-awareness, researchers now report.

By: Michelle Rosique/Gillian Pensavalle An injured bull elephant named Ben made his way to the Bumi Hills Safari Lodge in Zimbabwe, in what appears to be a search for help. The staff at Bumi Hills ...

Ears Like a Katydid Copiphora gorgonensis, a South American katydid found to have remarkably human-like ears in a study released Nov. 16 in the journal Science.

On a sunny September afternoon, Happy is standing just a few feet away from the monorail at the Bronx Zoo. Her ears flap as she wraps her trunk around a fence that separates her from the slow ...