In research reported about 20 years ago, Happy appeared to recognize herself in a mirror. She was later the subject of a ...

For decades, ecologists have theorized that the extinction of one important species could set off a chain reaction of losses ...

African elephants range throughout the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa and the rainforests of Central and West Africa. The ...

A new study from Princeton University, the Smithsonian Institute, the Mpala Research Centre and many partner institutions has now documented the interconnection between the largest animals in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration showing an imposing fully-grown male Palaeoloxodon turkmenicus wandering India’a Kashmir Valley, 400,000 years ago ...

NEW YORK CITY, New York — Happy, a 55-year-old Asian elephant that lived at the Bronx Zoo for nearly five decades, was ...

Happy, the Bronx Zoo elephant at the center of animal rights debates and cognition studies, has died at 55 after serious ...

Researchers found elephants help sustain a hidden network of insects, with their loss triggering biodiversity declines across ecosystems.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A female Asian elephant at the St. Louis Zoo died shortly after her herd became agitated from a small dog running loose, zoo officials said. Rani (pronounced Rahn-ee) died Friday at ...

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