Look away, hunks; this one may sting a bit. In the wild, the law is straightforward: it's all about survival of the fittest.

We knew this before the study, but its authors found something new ― namely, that their preference was reflected in the wrinkle changes on the sides of the elephants’ trunks they studied.

The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change is busy posting photos of Shankar gambolling on Delhi Zoo grounds. And ...

Elephants may be a prized sight on safari, but they can be dangerous for those living alongside them. In Namibia, which has around 21,000 elephants, according to a 2022 survey, some areas have so ...

To understand the development and purpose of trunk wrinkles, a team of scientists focused on Asian and African elephants. They studied live individuals in zoos and tissue samples in museums ...

Are you left-handed or right-handed? Well, experts have found a way to work out if elephants are left or right 'trunked' by looking at the wrinkles in their skin. Elephants use their big trunks to ...

Elephants are pretty amazing, aren’t they? Aside from their famously impressive memory, the highly social animals can also communicate using a pitch we humans can’t hear. The world’s largest ...

Elephants are pretty amazing, aren’t they? Aside from their famously impressive memory, the highly social animals can also communicate using a pitch we humans can’t hear. The world’s largest land ...

Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August, Namibia ...