Wild African savannah elephants living near livestock in northern Kenya are showing measurable shifts in their gut microbiomes, raising fresh questions about how pastoralist land use may be reshaping ...

Sharing habitat with livestock is changing elephants' gut bacteria in ways that could be harmful to their health, according ...

Research on the rumbles of wild elephants suggest that these animals address each other with unique, name-like vocalizations. (Story aired on All... Wild elephants may have names that other elephants ...

African wild dogs are among the most successful hunters on the planet, with an 80% kill rate that far outpaces lions. They don’t need to scavenge. They earn their meals the hard way. Elephants don’t ...

The regulator of global wildlife trade will impose a near-total ban on sending African elephants captured from the wild to zoos after a final vote on the issue on Tuesday. Following a heated debate at ...

UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences' Shermin de Silva has spent the majority of her scientific career studying elephants. An assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, Behavior and ...

Elephants have fascinated people for centuries, and the more scientists study them, the more impressive they seem. Their ...

Over the weekend we learned the cause of death for Chai, the 37-year-old elephant moved from Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo to the Oklahoma City Zoo last year. A necropsy reveals she died of a bacterial ...

In this YouTube video, a pack of African wild dogs has caught a kudu near a watering hole. They have nearly finished devouring the carcass when a lone bull elephant turns up to take a drink. The ...