Elephants are known for their intelligence and social complexity, and recent observations show they might even engage in playful pranks. A new study documents Asian elephants’ skillful use of hoses ...

Recently there has been an increase in the population of Amboseli elephants with over 200 calves born in 2020. Here we see that 2023 may have another population boom as a bull elephant chases down an ...

Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to helping people and elephants get along. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers describing them as “compassionate.” Wildlife researchers have, for decades, ...

If you ever get an opportunity to go to Thailand, chances are you'll come home with a souvenir with the country's national animal on it…the Asian elephant. Elephants are more than a point of pride in ...

Elephants express a wide range of emotions through their body language. For example, an anxious elephant often holds its tail stiffly out to one side, while a calm and relaxed elephant will typically ...

I've studied various aspects of play behavior in a wide variety of nonhuman animals (animals) for decades, focusing mostly on members of the "dog family" (canids), while some of my students have ...

Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to helping people and elephants get along. That's the central finding of new ...

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.