In the past, people enjoyed watching elephants perform tricks in circuses. Today, such entertainment has largely fallen out ...

Elephants that live near farms are more daring than their deep-forest counterparts, and that behavior could be the key to helping people and elephants get along. That's the central finding of new ...

Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers describing them as “compassionate.” Wildlife researchers have, for decades, ...

The decline in Africa's population of forest elephants has had a direct impact on the decline of its ebony trees, a new study based in Cameroon now shows. A study published this August in the journal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In southern India, communities are having frightening run-ins with wildlife. Across villages near Bannerghatta National Park, ...

Source: Martinvl, via Wikimedia Commons. Play behavior can be a delicate balance between cooperation and competition. In apes and monkeys, a relaxed “play face” signals that one’s intentions are not ...

Behavioral health in veterinary medicine is often treated as an afterthought, something to address only when a problem arises ...