Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers ...

Elephants seem easy to figure out with their big bodies, long trunks, and always walking in slow groups. But they’re not simple animals. Behind the usual facts are habits, abilities, and instincts ...

• At birth, an elephant calf typically weighs 230 pounds and stands over 2 ½ feet tall. Baby elephants are nearly blind at birth and rely upon their trunks and their mothers to help them. • A newborn ...

• Elephants are the largest of all land animals in the world. • The life expectancy for female African elephants is approximately 40 years. The oldest known elephant lived to be 82. • The heaviest ...

Elephants have long been thought of as either African or Asian. But there are actually two species of African elephant: The savanna elephant is larger, has curving tusks, and roams the open plains of ...

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

Feces, dung, poop: words that never fail to make a 12-year-old boy laugh. But they have no place in highly advanced scientific processes, right? Well, that’s where you’d be wrong. Researchers ...

Research shows that solitary confinement is damaging to the human brain. The same is likely true for elephants. At Natural Bridge Zoo, in Virginia, the nearly 40-year-old African elephant Asha, ...

Editor’s Note: “The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper” features an inside look at the fatal conflict playing out between elephants and mankind in Sri Lanka. “Elephant Vs. Man” with CNN's Nick Paton ...