Elephants are not just the largest land animals on Earth — they are among the most emotionally complex, intellectually gifted, and ecologically vital creatures our planet has ever produced. From their ...

Elephants have fascinated people for centuries, and the more scientists study them, the more impressive they seem. Their intelligence, physical abilities, and social lives reveal a level of complexity ...

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 ...

African elephant populations are sometimes thought to differ only by the location of the animals, but, evolutionarily speaking, forest and savannah elephants are as separate genetically as Asian ...

There’s more to life as a young male elephant than we thought. Kate Evans reveals a strangely familiar world of teenage gangs, raging hormones and bossy dads ...

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 ...