Single-tusked male struck first on New Year’s Day when it killed a man, 35, in the village of Bandijhari in Jharkhand’s West ...

Source: Esin Üstün, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Decades of research have emphasized the importance of matriarchs in leading elephant herds. A herd, made up of related female ...

The dramatic rescue of an elephant seal pup swept out to sea could be the first recorded example of male altruism in the species 1. Altruism is found throughout the animal world. But the cost of ...

My colleagues, students, volunteers and I were at Mushara, a remote water source in Namibia’s Etosha National Park, to study the dynamics of an all-male society, bull elephant style. I’d been coming ...

The male elephant seals at Point Reyes National Seashore are large and in charge. While they visit Point Reyes beaches at various times throughout the year, the real action happens during mating and ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

Ali, a 34-year-old male bull elephant, underwent a tusk removal procedure — the equivalent of a cavity filling in humans Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens Ali the bull elephant, who used to reside at ...