Elephants in populations that lost or lack older individuals tend to have a lower chance of survival, spend less time with others and respond less accurately to threats, says behavioral ecologist Lucy ...

There are about 1,000 tiny hairs on an elephant’s rugged trunk, all designed to help the animal feel, a new study found.

Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers describing them as “compassionate.” Wildlife researchers have, for decades, ...

Researchers developed an advanced AI system named YORU that can identify specific animal behaviors with over 90% accuracy ...

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. That's the central finding of new ...

Elephants are incredibly intelligent and social animals with several sophisticated methods of communication. They use all their senses — hearing, sight, touch, and smell — to interact within their own ...

Elephants are known for being wildly intelligent and incredibly social. They’re also one of the few animals — aside from humans — that grieve for their dead. They form tight social bonds with their ...

In late 2025, social media users shared a video purportedly showing an elephant throwing grass on top of its head. The footage appeared to show the animal — already with some grass on its head — in a ...