Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers describing them as “compassionate.” Wildlife researchers have, for decades, ...

Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to helping people and elephants get along. That's the central finding of new ...

What is animal behavior? Uncover the ways animals communicate, hunt, and survive in the wild. Learn how animal behavior influences the way species interact with their environment.

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — Elephants are all people seem to be talking about after Monday's 5.2 magnitude earthquake near Julian. An incredible video that has now gone viral shows elephants at the San Diego ...

An elephant never forgets, the saying goes. They certainly have remarkable brains, with about three times as many neurons as we have. Anatomically, their brains look like a caricature of ours. The ...

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 ...

Elephants are known for being wildly intelligent and incredibly social. They’re also one of the few animals — aside from humans — that grieve for their dead. They form tight social bonds with their ...

Elephants are known for being wildly intelligent and incredibly social. They’re also one of the few animals — aside from humans — that grieve for their dead. They form tight social bonds with their ...