Peulh herdspeople, in an encampment above, tolerate the animals. Carlton Ward, Jr. The region is barely habitable for elephants (wallowing in the last mud of a water hole that dried up two days later.

LUMEZI, Zambia—Three-year-old Dickson Ngwira was deep into his afternoon nap when half a dozen elephants, using trunks as trowels, gouged a five-foot-wide hole in the brick wall near his bed. His ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A herd of wild elephants walk through the savanna of Tarangire National Park in Tanzania, East Africa© MPH Photos/Shutterstock.com ...

Celebrities, artists, media and influential people nationwide join WWF to condemn killing of elephants for ivory by removing the letter “Chor Chaang” (ช) from their names as a part of a campaign ...

(CNN) — The world’s smallest elephants are still big. Measuring around nine feet (2.7 meters) tall, Bornean elephants are the smallest subspecies of the Asian elephant, and are two feet (60 ...

Joshua Plotnik worked to prevent deadly encounters between people and elephants. Then the funding froze. Lost Science Joshua Plotnik worked to prevent deadly encounters between people and elephants.

They say an elephant never forgets—and it turns out they can learn to adapt to drones. Once seen as a source of alarm, drones are now proving to be surprisingly elephant-friendly and a valuable ...

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) has saved 255 elephants from potential train hits across its jurisdiction between ...