Sangita Iyer is on a mission. As a child, the documentary maker, who was born in the Indian state of Kerala but now lives in Toronto, saw ceremonial elephants being paraded and thought they were ...

A woman was killed and two other people seriously injured by an agitated young elephant during a merit ceremony in the ...

Robbie Clark, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute When an Asian elephant named Kamala arrived at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in 2013, she was welcomed with much ...