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 ...

What do a wildlife conservationist, a herd of trained elephants, a jazz composer and an architect have in common? In the ...

Elephants are the largest land animals worldwide, used in tourism in several countries, and are often gentle to humans despite their gigantic sizes. However, the elephant population has fallen greatly ...

It's not a sight you see every day: 100 life-size Indian elephant sculptures lining Santa Monica Boulevard. Their goal: to ...

Africa’s human population will more than double over the next 50 years, putting more pressure on Africa’s wildlands. New efforts are needed to stop the decline of elephant populations and ...

Southern Africa’s elephant population has grown to over 230,000 – a conservation success that is creating new problems for ...

Elephants are not the problem, he argued, pointing to poor land management and the increase of human settlements next to national parks and in buffer zones designed to separate animals and people.

Elephants can’t pursue their release from a zoo because they’re not human, court says The Colorado Supreme Court threw out a case on the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo's elephants. (Source: KKTV) ...

05/20/2025 12:35 Asian elephants have larger brains than their African relatives Jan Zwilling Wissenschaftskommunikation Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (IZW) im Forschungsverbund ...