Fall break has started for many schools this week, and families can head over to the Oklahoma City Zoo to enjoy a fun fall ...

Elephants shape the African savanna. They consume huge amounts of forage, dig for water, topple trees and affect all the ...

When an elephant dies, its body slowly breaks down, releasing nutrients into the soil that eventually nourish the grass ...

Moving large animals around is a seductive idea in conservation. If there are plenty of animals in one place and too few in ...

Scientists studying wild elephant confrontations discovered something unexpected: these animals don't just brawl or back down when competing for resources. The way they negotiate conflict reveals a ...

September 22 marks Elephant Appreciation Day, a day just for appreciating some of the biggest creatures in the animal kingdom.

Wild African elephants appear to use body movements as deliberate signals. They watch other elephants before and during gestures.

In February 2020, behavioral ecologist Mickey Pardo watched a female African elephant named Matisse call to her newborn in Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve. She used deep, repeated rumbles, a sound he ...

They are so cute!

New research suggests the animals' overlapping calls serve as coordinated group messages and may contain additional ...