Elephants have long unsettled and fascinated observers with what looks uncannily like a funeral rite, lingering over ...

Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers describing them as “compassionate.” Wildlife researchers have, for decades, ...

A perspective in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface argues that advances in AI, sensing technologies and modeling are ...

The decline in Africa's population of forest elephants has had a direct impact on the decline of its ebony trees, a new study based in Cameroon now shows. A study published this August in the journal ...

Elephants are known for being wildly intelligent and incredibly social. They’re also one of the few animals — aside from humans — that grieve for their dead. They form tight social bonds with their ...

In southern India, communities are having frightening run-ins with wildlife. Across villages near Bannerghatta National Park, elephants are moving in ways they never have before — traveling far from ...

Early humans were not just scavengers. New research shows they actively butchered elephants, transforming survival and social behavior.