A large bull elephant that was tranquilized recently so veterinarians could treat an arrow wound appears to have slept deeply throughout the procedure. That is, if its powerful snoring was an ...

Raja Gaja, with high head domes, sighted in Bardia. A photo from Dr. Adrian Lister’s collection. © Nick Brown (1993) Nearly 30 years ago, three wild bull elephants ...

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Elephants’ massive ears are one of their most distinguishable characteristics. Alongside their long trunks, an elephant’s big ears are the first thing we see. These large ears easily give elephants a ...

A team of wildlife experts in Kenya rushed to the aid of an adult African elephant spotted with a large spear in it’s foot. Veterinarians pulled a bent metal spear about 5-feet long that had become ...

In parts of Southern Africa, elephants engage in “hedging” by breaking off the branches of hardwood mopane trees, snapping their trunks in two or pushing them over. Consequently, large areas of mopane ...

Without swift medical intervention, the injury would have caused irreversible damage to the elephant’s foot, experts said. Screen grab of Facebook photo shared by Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. A team of ...

Source: Esin Üstün, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Decades of research have emphasized the importance of matriarchs in leading elephant herds. A herd, made up of related female ...