A temple in India is using a life-sized electronic elephant as a stand-in for their rituals. The robot, which is called "Irinjadappilly Raman," will be replacing the typical live elephant used in many ...

His groundbreaking field research was instrumental in banning the international ivory trade and protecting elephants from ...

Visitors will be able to get close to — and even touch —100 life-size sculptures of Indian elephants which are beginning a cross-country journey. The Great Elephant Migration traveling art exhibition ...

This article was originally published on Undark. In 2018, news spread around Saroj Duru’s village that four elephants had gathered at a nearby lake. Such creatures didn’t typically visit her region in ...

Investigators also witnessed the 2-year-old elephant sucking his trunk, which is a sign of distress in elephants Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013.

HOHENWALD, Tenn — Shirley, the oldest elephant at The Elephant Sanctuary and second oldest in North America, died on Monday at the age of 72. Shirley retired to The Elephant Sanctuary in 1999 after ...

Electric wire fences set up to keep marauding elephants out of farms and villages in Indonesia’s Aceh province worked well — at least at first. When the elephants realized the electric current did not ...

A new 12-foot-tall "Digital Disco Elephant" statue has been installed outside the renovated University Club in Tuscaloosa. Created by local artists, the 500-pound sculpture is covered in 20,000 disco ...