The world and its many landscapes are continuously changing, so it should come as no surprise that wild animals follow suit to adjust to the dynamic environment they live in. In most cases, they seek ...

Elephant poaching is an ongoing problem throughout Africa as poachers develop sneakier tactics for collecting their trophies. On the other hand, efforts to deter elephant poaching or at least catch ...

Scientists analyzing data from aerial surveys carried out over one of East Africa’s most important nature reserves have uncovered clusters of elephant carcasses close to some ranger posts. The team ...

Smartwatch implants help track elephant sleep patterns The calories they burn and the stairs they climb remain a mystery. Stefanie Fogel Updated Wed, March 1, 2017 at 8:59 PM PST Shutterstock / zeber ...

For something we spend roughly one third of our lives doing, there's still a whole lot we don't know about why and how we sleep. Just as some researchers are trying to unlock its secrets in humans, ...

Forests are living systems, and elephants are their engineers—and in losing them, we do not merely lose a species, we lose ...

A few years ago, Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, published the results of something called the Great Elephant Census, which counted all the savanna elephants in Africa. What it found rocked ...

African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...