During the recent Ditwah cyclone, elephants were seen floating in treeless floodplains that were once their forest habitats.

Elephants are among the most intelligent creatures on the planet. They use long sticks to scratch their bodies when their trunks can't reach, use palm fronds as fly swatters, and recognize their ...

In the sun-scorched lands bordering Zimbabwe's largest wildlife sanctuary, Takesure Moyo pedals through his village each ...

Namibian desert elephants fear humans, but drought forces them to seek water near settlements. Drought is forcing Namibian desert elephants to seek water near human settlements. But human encounters ...

Since being collared in Zambia two years ago, a young bull elephant known to researchers as Z16 has walked nearly 12,000 ...

In Botswana, coexisting with the country's 130,000 elephants can be a daily negotiation. For rural families, tending a crop means hoping these 'gentle ...

Researchers in Italy discovered 400,000-year-old evidence that ancient humans butchered elephants for food and tools. At the Casal Lumbroso site near Rome, they found hundreds of bones and stone ...