LUMEZI, Zambia—Three-year-old Dickson Ngwira was deep into his afternoon nap when half a dozen elephants, using trunks as trowels, gouged a five-foot-wide hole in the brick wall near his bed. His ...

They say an elephant never forgets—and it turns out they can learn to adapt to drones. Once seen as a source of alarm, drones are now proving to be surprisingly elephant-friendly and a valuable ...

Rescued Elephant Thinks Caregiver Is Drowning and Rushes to Save Him originally appeared on PetHelpful. Wildlife Rescuers recently shared a heartwarming video that beautifully captures the deep bond ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.

The elephant was transported to the organization's elephant hospital using a newly commissioned, state-of-the-art elephant ...

Both Asian and African elephant species are either endangered or critically endangered, with fewer than half a million of them left in the wild — a staggering and sobering statistic. Thankfully, a ...

(CNN) — The world’s smallest elephants are still big. Measuring around nine feet (2.7 meters) tall, Bornean elephants are the smallest subspecies of the Asian elephant, and are two feet (60 ...

Peulh herdspeople, in an encampment above, tolerate the animals. Carlton Ward, Jr. The region is barely habitable for elephants (wallowing in the last mud of a water hole that dried up two days later.

Scottish conservationist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who pioneered new understandings of African elephants and made protecting the giant pachyderms a life-long passion, has died at the age of 83, his ...