"She looks less enthusiastic," Brecht said. "You can tell." Mary is the only elephant at the Berlin Zoo who showers herself, Bretcht says, but she's not the only self-starter. Earlier this year ...

Elephant conservation has been a roaring success: numbers in Tsavo rose from around 6,000 in the mid-1990s to almost 15,000 elephants in 2021, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).

From 1964–2016, forest elephant populations decreased on average by 90%, and savanna elephant populations fell on average by 70%. In combination, populations declined by 77% on average.

Now, it appears that some elephants at the Berlin Zoo in Germany like to use hoses–particularly an Asian elephant named Mary. A video abstract for the 2024 Current Biology paper on elephant ...

Pop superstar Taylor Swift gave her fans special instructions for Election Day. "So what is today? Tuesday. What is it everyone is supposed to do today? Oh yeah, gotta go vote today," Swift said ...

Kamala the elephant, who was living at The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington DC, had “irreversibly declined” in health, forcing keepers to euthanize ...

The U.S. Air Force and Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) recently conducted a joint "elephant walk" at Misawa Air Base, showcasing aircraft like the F-16 Fighting Falcon, JASDF F-35A ...