A famous Asian elephant calf in Southwest China will never know that tens of millions of people nationwide spoke up for her, leading to her return to her hometown 1,600 kilometers from zoos where ...

Clearly, animals who have complex minds, deep social, intellectual, and emotional lives, and who are able to make choices (have agency) and display self-recognition are not things.

In the first-ever sleep study on marine mammals in the wild, she found in the open ocean, elephant seals sleep less than two hours per day—while on land, they doze more than 10 hours a day.

"Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood follows the battle to move Happy, a 50-year-old Asian elephant, from the Bronx Zoo to sanctuary… I hope that this groundbreaking graphic novel ...

Costa and his colleagues, led by his former graduate student Jessica Kendall-Bar, have found that, during the foraging trips, elephant seals average just two hours of sleep a day, broken into five ...

Blindfolded elephant experiments suggest the animals rely on eyesight to maintain balance. Your friend's email. Your email. I would like to subscribe to Science X Newsletter. Learn more.

The cartoon, titled “The Third Term Panic,” showed a donkey (representing the Herald and the Democratic press) wearing a lion’s skin (labeled “Caesarism") to frighten a group of animals.