The animals could see both racks from their enclosure, but couldn't reach them with their trunks. Nevertheless, they regularly tried to do so, in order to examine the stimuli presented more closely.
Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most captivating, majestic wild animals to feed desperately hungry people. In August ...
Your support makes all the difference. A court in America is being asked to decide if elephants are considered to be the same as people in a ruling on the animals’ freedom. Missy, Kimba ...
There’s a Sherlock Holmes tale in here somewhere: A clever observer could check wrinkles and whiskers on an elephant trunk to catch a left-trunker pachyderm perp masquerading as a righty ...
A new study sheds light on the muscular, dexterous appendage, suggesting trunk wrinkles are more important than many people realize Margherita Bassi Daily Correspondent Elephants' wrinkly trunks ...
Your support makes all the difference. In a legal first, Colorado’s highest court is hearing arguments Thursday on whether five African elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo should be able to ...
It’s a stampede — with a message. The “Great Elephant Migration,” one of the largest outdoor art installations to hit the streets of New York, has placed 100 life-sized elephant sculptures ...
They’re practically flooding our social media feeds and TV screens. Of course, we’re talking about the elephant and donkey, with the former representing the Republican Party and the latter as ...
A multidisciplinary team of scientists has conducted a study of Asian and African elephant wrinkles to learn more about their purpose. In their study, published in the journal Royal Society Open ...
But the two ton, 15-year-old elephant was no match for the flooding that inundated Chiang Mai, Thailand’s second-largest city, last week. By the time a team of rescuers saw her, she had been ...
November 1, 2024 • For years, we've been asking, "Which came first: the chicken or the egg?" Maybe what we should have been asking is, "Which came first: the frog or the tadpole?" A new paper in ...