“Elephants are amazing with hoses,” says Michael Brecht of the Humboldt University of Berlin. Also, the elephant “Mary is the queen of showering.” Asian elephants are known for their impressive ...

Research reveals that elephants use intentional gestures to communicate. A study in Zimbabwe observed elephants gesturing to request apples. They only ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

Colorado State University scientists have called elephants by their names, and the elephants called back. Wild African elephants address each other with name-like calls, a rare ability among nonhuman ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

Elephants are incredibly intelligent animals that experience a remarkable emotional depth. While they can be fiercely ...

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 Amboseli elephants : introduction / Cynthia J. Moss, Harvey Croze, and Phyllis C. Lee -- Amboseli ecosystem context : past and present / Harvey Croze and W. Keith Lindsay -- The human context of ...

A Thai elephant checks out a cattle brush in an experiment showing that elephants living near farms are more interested in exploring unfamiliar objects — a curiosity that may put them in harm’s way.