The death of a well-known wild animal is an odd kind of news. It is intimate, because so many people feel they have met the ...

Kenyans are mourning the death of a beloved “super tusker” elephant whose long life in the wild came to symbolize the country ...

The world-famous elephant bull Craig has died at the age of around 54. The iconic African elephant lived in Amboseli National ...

A suspected deadly mountain lion attack on New Year’s Day that killed a woman hiking alone was preceded by another harrowing ...

Suddenly, one of them was right behind me. As I jumped out of bed and across to the door, I heard rips and the sound of ...

In parts of India and Southeast Asia, tigers occasionally kill young Asian elephants. Adults are generally safe from the ...

Sports Mole previews Wednesday's Africa Cup of Nations clash between Ivory Coast and Mozambique, including predictions, team ...

In Southern Africa, people live alongside elephants, but not always peacefully. The growing reports of human-elephant conflict have triggered calls for elephant culls in some countries, like Zimbabwe.

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

Born into an aristocratic British family, he turned his empathy and knowledge of the world’s largest land mammals to the cause of saving them from poachers. Excerpt from “A Life Among Elephants,” ...

FEW ANIMALS scare full-grown African elephants. But bees are among them. So it was to bees that Iain Douglas-Hamilton looked when he sought to draw a line between those pachyderms’ domain and humanity ...