Installation view of The Secret World of Elephants at the American Museum of Natural History showing how elephants' ears cool them. (all photos AX Mina/Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted) Until I ...

Elephants made sure to keep their calves safe during a scary situation. When a 5.2 magnitude earthquake hit San Diego on April 14, elephants at the city’s zoo quickly sprung into action. As the San ...

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A new study from an interdisciplinary German research collaboration, led by the Haptic Intelligence Department at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS), reveals the secret to the ...

Tolstoy used to be a formidable elephant: Massive in size, revered by the young bulls, and with tusks so long they touched the ground. When he was alive, Tolstoy had been more than just some random ...

I’m not alone in being amazed by the social, cognitive, and emotional lives of elephants. I try to read just about everything that is written about these magnificent giants, and when I learned about ...

Move and groove like an elephant! Sing along with Nick Young to this fun elephant movement song! This video was created for the Get a Head Start with the Smithsonian (GHSS) program. This National ...

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 ...