Elephants are among the most intelligent and socially complex animals on Earth, yet they remain less studied than many other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elephant spraying water cooling off on a hot day, Image shows a rescued female Asian elephant at the elephant kingdom sanctuary ...

Happy was not just another zoo elephant. For scientists, she became one of the most important elephants ever studied. For animal advocates, she became a symbol in a growing debate about the treatment ...

Elephants are fascinating intelligent and emotional beings. In his seminal new book, called Thirty-Three Ways of Looking at an Elephant, award-winning author Dale Peterson offers a collection of ...

Researchers at the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College have found that Asian elephants can suppress impulsive behaviors and adjust their actions when circumstances change—a cognitive ability that ...

From scurrying rats to calculating cats, quite a few mammals use whiskers to feel their way around the world. The world’s largest land mammal may not come to mind first here, but the number of ...

The more we actually study animals the more we learn about their emotional lives and cognitive skills. A few years ago a prestigious research group discovered that mice displayed empathy but caused a ...