Karachi’s last two African elephants remain in captivity. Their sisters are already dead. Will they survive?

African savanna elephants are considered ecosystem engineers. For up to roughly 70 years, each massive animal rips through ...

Have you ever wondered what the world's largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

A massive elephant walked straight up to a safari guide sitting in an exposed front seat, close enough that its tusks passed ...

Alex Coburn speaks with PEOPLE about his work as a professional safari guide ...

Elephants shape the African savanna. They consume huge amounts of forage, dig for water, topple trees and affect all the ...

Wild African elephants appear to use body movements as deliberate signals. They watch other elephants before and during gestures.

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Charley, an ageing four-ton African elephant, is trained to enter a transport container, on Aug. 9, 2024 at the Pretoria, ...

African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...

The mental well-being of three elephants in a zoo in South Africa is the subject of an unusual court case, with animal welfare groups saying they are depressed and should be moved to a larger ...