During the experiment, elephants in Zimbabwe showed an ability to change their gestures to something more elaborate when they didn’t get exactly what they wanted.

Humans have long mastered the art of expressing their goals and needs through both language and gestures. A similar behavior ...

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An AVAAZ petition addressed to Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake by Champa Fernando,  President of the Kandy ...

Dutch investigative journalist Olivier van Beemen published In the Name of Nature: An Investigation into the Neocolonial ...

There has been a lot of conversation around Madikwe, but none of the rhetoric has come from the people or entities who oversee the management of the reserve. As custodians of Madikwe, and partners in ...

The largest groups of elephants are found roaming the plains of Africa and Asia. Over the grasslands, they are on a constant ...

In the wild, herbivores are often seen as the peaceful grazers of the animal kingdom—gentle giants simply trying to surv ...

Three cattle on the left, 20 elephants on the right,” shouts the expedition leader from the bow seat of the first of five ...

+ There are day trips from Cape Town to Stellenbosch and Franschhoek winemaking regions and the Western Cape is on the end of ...

All of the new places added to the list this year have “outstanding universal value” and meet at least one out of 10 ...

In other words, domesticated animals do love their owners. (How's that for feel-good science?) In case you need more ...