“It’s lion day!” my 3.5-year-old daughter Indah shouts from her car seat in the middle row of an open-sided Land Cruiser in South Africa. We’re barreling along atop brick-red Kalahari Desert sand ...

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

African elephants may give each other unique names that are used by family members to have one-on-one conversations in the wild, according to new research which analysed the mammal’s vocalisations ...

Elephants may be the only animals besides humans to come up with arbitrary names for each other, according to an analysis of recordings using machine learning. The analysis found that some calls from ...

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 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A study of the African bush elephant's vast network of deep wrinkles has found it is intricately designed to help the animals keep their cool, fight off parasites and defend against ...