This terribly sad Instagram post documents a mother elephant’s grief for her stillborn calf. For two days, she carries it ...

According to a new study published on Monday, June 10, African elephants refer to one another with "individually specific calls" Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined ...

Elephants are renowned for their intelligence, memory, and strong social bonds. Recent research has unveiled another remarkable aspect of their behavior: intentional, goal-directed gesturing. A ...

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 may be the first non-human animals to have names for each other, according to a new study that sheds more light on the evolution of language across species. The yet-to-be peer-reviewed ...

As Kenya's human population grows and farmland spreads, wild animals are increasingly pushed into smaller and fragmented ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A study of the African bush elephant's vast network of deep wrinkles has found it is intricately designed to help the animals keep their cool, fight off parasites and defend against ...