This is the dramatic moment elephant handlers grappled with an escaped bull in heat. The 30-year-old jumbo had broken free from its chains and wandered into a forest in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on ...

Tourists encountered an angry bull elephant while on safari in Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa; the animal picked up their truck and dropped it on the ground several times ...

A conservationist has described the moment she was almost trampled by a huge bull elephant, as she slept under the stars. Saba Douglas-Hamilton, conservationist, filmmaker and TV presenter, grew ...

A frightening moment for a group of tourists in South Africa was caught on camera when an elephant approached their safari truck and partially lifted it up into the air.

Only Pilanesberg males (bull numbers not in bold) that entered musth are shown. The original elephant population was brought from Kruger in 1981 (13 juvenile males, 5 juvenile females), 1983 (13 ...

An African bull elephant tusk was used in the study to compare with mammoth tusks. University of Michigan A tusk from a female mammoth that lived between 5,597 and 5,885 years ago on Wrangel Islan ...

In the dry years, the hierarchy is fairly rigid. No one, except the occasional bull in musth, dares to challenge Greg, or his second- and third-ranked companions. But during the 2006 wet year, the ...

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 ...

When a bull elephant and hippo meet in a watering hole, it's not always a peaceful coexistence. In the accompanying footage, captured by Scott Hyman in Botswana, South Africa, ...

The shop owner said Plai Biang Lek the wild elephant helped himself to about 9 bags of sweet rice crackers, a sandwich and some dried bananas before leaving with a bag of snacks in his trunk.