It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

Elephants are renowned for their intelligence, memory, and strong social bonds. Recent research has unveiled another remarkable aspect of their behavior: intentional, goal-directed gesturing. A ...

In Southern Africa, people live alongside elephants, but not always peacefully. The growing reports of human-elephant conflict have triggered calls for elephant culls in some countries, like Zimbabwe.

Family of African Bush Elephants taking a mud bath in Tsavo East National Park, Kenya.© I, Mgiganteus, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The idea that animals have their own forms of language has ...