An elephant herd killed six people and injured one child in eastern India on Feb. 13; the victims included a family of four, ...

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren addresses rising man-elephant conflicts after 27 fatalities in multiple districts. He mandates a mechanism to prevent human deaths and maps elephant corridors.

Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has instructed officials to establish a mechanism to prevent deaths caused by elephants. With 27 fatalities recently, Soren emphasized mapping elephant corridors ...

A staff feeds milk to a baby elephant as she touches its head at the Elephant Transit Home on April 1, 2019 in Udawalawe, Sri Lanka. Yuriko Nakao/Getty Images A rare UK-Canada natural history co-pro ...

Elephants, vital to India’s ecological and cultural fabric, now navigate increasingly fragmented habitats, rising incidence of negative interactions with humans. This has resulted in substantial ...

Indian wildlife officers are hunting a rampaging wild elephant blamed for killing at least 20 people and injuring 15 others in the forests of Jharkhand, villagers and officials said Tuesday. The ...

Baby elephants just do the darndest things. To watch one of them is to witness countless precious moments. There is just something about their innate curiosity, coupled with their slight clumsiness, ...

The first authoritative population assessment for African forest elephants estimates there are more than 145,000 individuals. Researchers say new survey techniques relying on sampling DNA from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Unlike humans, baby elephants can walk from birth. Baby elephants can often stand within 20 minutes of being born and can usually ...

The secretive African forest elephant is coming out of the shadows. The latest IUCN assessment of the species, which lives in dense rainforest, concludes there are over 135,000 of them, 16 per cent ...

The name was chosen from over 11,000 public submissions and four final options selected by zookeepers. The name announcement coincided with Giving Tuesday, a day encouraging community donations and ...

GENEVA, Nov 27 (Reuters) - There are thousands more endangered African forest elephants than previously thought, thanks to a new counting method using the DNA extracted from their dung, a study showed ...