Embedded within the trunk are thousands of hair-like projections that embody one of the nature's most beautiful evidence of ...

Researchers have studied rat and mouse whiskers, but these key organs for elephants have been largely overlooked.

Elephants in populations that lost or lack older individuals tend to have a lower chance of survival, spend less time with others and respond less accurately to threats, says behavioral ecologist Lucy ...

The whiskers of elephants and domestic cats have stiff bases that transition to soft rubber-like tips, different from the stiff whiskers of rats ...

While some young elephants are quiet and reserved, others—like Pardamat—wake up every day and choose chaos the moment their ...

Wild elephants seem to address each other using distinctive, rumbling sounds that could be akin to individual names. That's according to a provocative new study in the journal Nature Ecology & ...

In the same way you might hate to eat the same food for every meal, every day, elephants have been found to vary their diets from day to day. Researchers investigated the eating habits of individual ...

Elephants are among the smartest, largest animals on the planet. With all that size and brain power, it should come as no surprise that making a baby elephant is no easy task. In fact, elephants have ...

DENVER (AP) — Missy, Kimba, Lucky, LouLou, and Jambo have lived in Colorado Springs for decades in the elephant exhibit at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Now an animal rights group is trying to release ...