(Reuters) - African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that ...

Quick Take Indonesia successfully completed a nationwide ban on elephant riding for 100 captive animals. The elephants in captivity will now partake in ethical tourism. Elephants used for riding in ...

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, as ...

A study found large-scale declines of African elephants in the first continent-wide analysis of population survey data. Over 53 years of surveys, forest elephant populations decreased on average by 90 ...

FRANCIOTTI EXPLAINS. IT WAS REALLY GREAT TO SEE THE IMPORTANCE IN THE WILD AND THE IMPORTANCE AND THE PARALLELS THAT WE SEE IN OUR ELEPHANTS HERE. STAFF AT THE MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE ARE LEARNING ...

DNA pulled from the dung of African forest elephants has given experts a more accurate—and higher—population estimate for the elusive animal, but the species remains critically endangered, a study ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elephants stand behind a fence, serving as a tourist attraction near Namuang Waterfall on Koh Samui in Thailand© Margarita ...

George Wittemyer receives funding from the U.S.A. National Science Foundation and Save the Elephants, a Kenya based non-profit organization. He is a professor at Colorado State University and serves ...

Elephants stand behind a fence, serving as a tourist attraction near Namuang Waterfall on Koh Samui in Thailand© Margarita Young/Shutterstock.com Ethical tourism has been gaining traction for years.