of the elephants avoided steep slopes and rough terrain, demonstrating a clear preference for energy-efficient paths.

Similarly, water sources play a key role in where they choose to go. However, individual elephants can respond to water ...

Learn about elephants' sharp sense of travel planning, helping them save energy and find food as they trek through their ...

Maintaining current elephant numbers, let alone reversing declines, requires new thinking and conservation innovation.

A new study has revealed that African elephants have an extraordinary ability to meet their colossal food requirements as ...

Massive and energy-hungry, elephants face real challenges in navigating their landscapes. New research using over two decades ...

A weatherproof box and motion-trigger camera help photographer Will Burrard-Lucas capture images of rarely seen African ...

The National Museum of Natural History recently spruced up its iconic African elephant mount, which has greeted visitors ...

People take a lot of time caring for their land, then the elephants come "when you have planted the crops and they are almost ...

Electric Jeeps and carbon credits are unlikely to make up for gas-guzzling private flights and building mini towns in the ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic ...