Elephants are super sweet creatures, with herds often led by an older female matriarch, and many female elephants help raise ...

Humans and elephants have a surprising number of traits in common. These animals are highly intelligent and emotional, feeling many of the same emotions as we do. They’re among the world’s most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Looks like someone is growing up! A video of baby elephant learning how to use her trunk is the absolute cutest. She’s just ...

Why is the elephant trunk so wrinkly? It sounds like the start of one of Aesop’s fables. But in a new study in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers offer up some answers. This all ...

The 486-pound elephant calf joins sisters 9-year-old Nandi and 4-year-old Penzi, along with allomother Lungile. Although the 3-month-old is still nursing — which she’ll do for several more years — she ...

There’s a Sherlock Holmes tale in here somewhere: A clever observer could check wrinkles and whiskers on an elephant trunk to catch a left-trunker pachyderm perp masquerading as a righty, thanks to a ...