Source: Esin Üstün, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Decades of research have emphasized the importance of matriarchs in leading elephant herds. A herd, made up of related female ...
In parts of India and Southeast Asia, tigers occasionally kill young Asian elephants. Adults are generally safe from the ...
A lower ranking male gives a ‘trunk-to-mouth’ salute to an older, higher-ranking individual. This greeting behavior is a very important ritual that serves to reinforce relationships between bonded ...
Ruth, a 43-year-old “geriatric” elephant at the Milwaukee County Zoo, is doing well after the animal fell earlier in the week and couldn’t get up without help from a front-end loader. The zoo said on ...
Zoo visitors and those who saw the viral video were thrilled to hear Ruth was unharmed from the incident Ruth is a 43-year-old African savanna elephant, one of three living at the Milwaukee County Zoo ...
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How Southern African farmers & elephants can both adapt to coexist
Elephants are considered a sacred totem by many in northwestern Zimbabwe, but they also frequently raid villagers’ crops near ...
A South African man died over the weekend after being trampled by an elephant while he tried to save his grandson at the country’s Kruger National Park. Shaik Adam Shabir Ammed, 59, was with his ...
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- For two decades, Osh the elephant has been calling the Oakland Zoo home. But in the fall, the only remaining African elephant living at the zoo and in the Bay Area will move ...
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