With their swishing tails and gently flapping ears, mechanical elephants are slowly finding a place in religious events in ...

See All Key Ideas Not all elephants are the same. A new study has found that male African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) develop distinctive personality traits as they age. “We wanted ...

Maintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.

As a result, larger tusks are considerably rare to find. Slightly smaller than their African cousins, the Asian Elephant can be found in India and South East Asia. They used to have their habitat ...

THRISSUR, India-It flaps its ears and squirts water from a waving trunk, but this elephant is a life-size mechanical replica rolled out to replace the endangered animals in India’s Hindu temples.

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic ...

Why are there no elephants in China? And why have large numbers of elephants always existed throughout the Indian subcontinent? Why was there such a drastic divergence in the destiny of the elephant ...

George Wittemyer receives funding from the U.S.A. National Science Foundation and Save the Elephants, a Kenya based non-profit organization. He is a professor at Colorado State University and ...

It flaps its ears and squirts water from a waving trunk, but this elephant is a life-size mechanical replica rolled out to replace the endangered animals in India's Hindu temples. Made of ...