Elephants are the largest animals in the world that can’t jump. Scientists largely agree that this is due to their anatomy, especially their straight-legged posture and heavy mass. In addition to not ...

African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...

Elephants are fascinating animals, and their trunks are even more impressive once you realize everything they can do. This long, flexible combination of nose and upper lip has over 40,000 muscles ...

A massive elephant walked straight up to a safari guide sitting in an exposed front seat, close enough that its tusks passed on either side of him. What happened next reveals something unexpected ...

Hello! This is "Chibi Travel Diary"🐘This time, I took my 3-year-old son to Ichihara Elephant Kingdom and Sayuri World in ...

I’m not alone in being amazed by the social, cognitive, and emotional lives of elephants. I try to read just about everything that is written about these magnificent giants, and when I learned about ...

Elephants are the largest land animals, only outsized by giants of the sea such as whales. Their large stature makes them a sight to behold, which is one of the reasons people around the world love ...

Dr Kate Evans is the director and founder of Elephants for Africa. She started her research over a decade ago, looking at adolescent male elephants in the Okavango Delta and how they socialise – with ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Oregon Zoo elephants have some new logs to play with. Some giant logs from the World Forestry Center’s Peggy the Train display now have a new home in the zoo’s Elephant Lands ...

The post When Elephants Get Sick, How Do Vets Treat Them? appeared first on A-Z Animals. Elephants may look powerful, yet they can be taken out by many of the same health challenges as other mammals.

Some understanding of how elephants exist in the world only deepens the mystery of their amazing lives. This is where the title came from, to feel wonder by knowing about lives so different than our ...