“Elephants are the gardeners of the forest,” Blake wrote, explaining that when elephants eat the fruit from high carbon ...

A Spanish tourist reportedly has been "trampled to death" by elephants in South Africa after he tried to get close to them to take pictures. The fatal incident involving the 43-year-old man happened ...

Across the corral, a young elephant ambled into view, head bobbing, trunk curling, ears flapping, trundling along as fast as ...

Elephants are considered a sacred totem by many in northwestern Zimbabwe, but they also frequently raid villagers’ crops near ...

Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August, Namibia ...

The vision is to use the gate to create extended elephant migration routes that cut across South Africa, connecting green areas with navigation corridors that bypass cities and the rehabilitated gold ...

Hamilton, the zoologist who dedicated his life to saving Africa’s elephants from systematic slaughter—despite being nearly tusked through the gut.

(Reuters) - African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that ...

The victim was reportedly a 59-year-old man from South Africa Ian Walton/Getty A tourist has been trampled to death by an elephant while visiting a national park in South Africa. The victim was ...

FRANCIOTTI EXPLAINS. IT WAS REALLY GREAT TO SEE THE IMPORTANCE IN THE WILD AND THE IMPORTANCE AND THE PARALLELS THAT WE SEE IN OUR ELEPHANTS HERE. STAFF AT THE MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE ARE LEARNING ...

African elephant herds have faced poaching for decades, but a new wave of poaching has placed them on the edge of extinction, according to a study published Tuesday. The study was published in the ...

C'sar the elephant, the N.C. Zoo's longest-tenured and one of its most charismatic residents, has died. The park announced C'sar's passing on Monday, Dec. 22, saying he died peacefully on Dec. 19 ...