The photo of a courageous mother lemur with a baby on her back, taking a harrowing jump in a ravine, won the California ...

Humans have long mastered the art of expressing their goals and needs through both language and gestures. A similar behavior ...

An African forest elephant -- nicknamed the "ghost elephant" due to its incredibly infrequent sightings -- was spotted in Senegal for the first time in five years.

What do a wildlife conservationist, a herd of trained elephants, a jazz composer and an architect have in common? In the ...

A humane method to control elephant populations without behavioural side effects.

In a study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the ...

In elephant populations that have experienced massive poaching, the hunters' selection of larger males may cause similar problems once rhinoceros populations increase, and these too may be helped ...

Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as legal mammoth ivory. Since the two types look deceptively similar, law ...

African elephant Genny C, 47, was knocked to the ground by another elephant in her enclosure at the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, where teams used cranes to help her back to her big feet.

An African forest elephant — nicknamed the "ghost elephant" due to its incredibly infrequent sightings — was spotted in Senegal for the first time in five years earlier this June.

The demands of the illicit trade in elephant ivory had caused African elephant populations to plummet by more than 80% in the last century, leading to bans on the trade and sale of elephant ivory ...