Sept. 13 (UPI) --Fear is a powerful motivator. In parts of Africa, the fear of poachers has inspired new behavioral patterns among elephants. When researchers from the University of Twente, in the ...

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

From tens of thousands of hours of observation, scientists have compiled a detailed library of African elephant behavior. Joyce Poole, a foremost expert in elephant behavior, and her husband, Petter ...

Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to helping people and elephants get along. Subscribe to our newsletter for the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ASHEBORO, N.C. — Katherine Kastl knows the ...

Stories of unique and sentient interactions between elephants and their dead are a familiar part of the species' lore, but a comprehensive study of these interactions has been lacking -- until now. A ...

UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences' Shermin de Silva has spent the majority of her scientific career studying elephants. An assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, Behavior and ...

Fitness tracking is all the rage right now. If you want to, you can monitor your heart rate, count your footsteps and calories burned, and even monitor your sleep patterns, all by using devices that ...

Thailand's most revered animal — the wild Asian elephant — has now become one of the country's biggest problems. Decades of deforestation and overdevelopment of natural habitat is pushing wild ...