Elephants have an amazing arsenal of face, ear and trunk movements. The trunk consists of far more muscles than the entire human body and can perform both powerful and very delicate movements. A team ...

An elephant at the Berlin Zoo really likes peeling her bananas.David Guinaldo/EyeEm/Getty Images An elephant named at the Berlin Zoo really likes peeling her bananas. Unlike other elephants, Pang Pha ...

Mary the elephant shows off her hose-showering skills. Credit: Urban et al./Current Biology An Asian elephant named Mary living at the Berlin Zoo surprised researchers by figuring out how to use a ...

The elephant is the largest existing land mammal on Earth, weighing anywhere from 4,000 to 10,000 pounds. There are three species of elephants: the African bush elephant (also known as the African ...

An elephant named at the Berlin Zoo really likes peeling her bananas. Unlike other elephants, Pang Pha peels the spotty yellow ones, but eats green and yellow ones whole. Researchers said they think ...

And we’re to blame. We’ve expanded into elephant territory, building homes and roads, felling forests and planting crops. More cruelly, people have indulged their desire for ivory trinkets that come ...

People all over North Macedonia are mourning the loss of their beloved Asian elephant Dunja, who spent her last years in Skopje Zoo – but had to be euthanized due to growing health problems and old ...

Topeka Zoo Asian elephant Cora, who appeared in a 1980 movie that was part of the popular "Smokey and the Bandit" series, died Oct. 7 at age 67.

SAN DIEGO — A 45-year-old Asian elephant named Devi who had lived at the San Diego Zoo since 1977 was euthanized Thursday after zoo officials said her health had declined. “Devi was beloved at the San ...