Once considered exotic quarry and beasts of burden, elephants are now viewed as treasures in need of saving. Since the first elephant story was published in National Geographic in 1906, the ...

Photo by Lynn Johnson/National Geographic Wild Asian elephants mingle with cattle at a garbage dump near Minneriya, in central Sri Lanka. The island nation is home to some 6,000 pachyderms living ...

In addition, National Geographic Books has just published Secrets of the Elephants, a lushly designed, 192-page, companion hardcover, by Paula Kahumbu and Claudia Geib, a science journalist whose ...

But that’s just the start. “Secrets of the Elephants” — 9-11 p.m. Friday and Saturday on the National Geographic Channel, then on Disney+ — shows that they, like us, vary by location ...

For the first set of elephant images published in National Geographic, in 1906, Eliza Scidmore photographed captive elephants herding wild ones across a river in what’s now Thailand.