Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elephants are known for their intelligence, strong social bonds, and good memories (Getty/iStock) Most of the research on elephant ...

Understanding how elephants use their trunks to pick up small objects could lead to robots designed with flexible hands or grippers, according to a new study that includes Rochester Institute of ...

A recent study suggests that the large mammals may seek out parts of bananas and papayas when they’re suffering from gut ...

Elephants have distinct names for each other just like humans do, say researchers at Colorado State University who've been studying wild African elephants. One of the study’s authors, George Wittemyer ...

Explore how an undergraduate researcher uses anthropology to study human-elephant conflict in Sri Lanka with the Honors College.

The earliest hominins in Europe shared their environment with large mammals and elephants were some of the largest animals ...

Quick Take When Acupuncture Meets Elephant Medicine Acupuncture is no longer confined to human clinics. In recent years, it ...

Research on the rumbles of wild elephants suggest that these animals address each other with unique, name-like vocalizations. (Story aired on All Things Considered on June 10, 2024.) Some wild African ...

They say an elephant never forgets—and it turns out they can learn to adapt to drones. Once seen as a source of alarm, drones are now proving to be surprisingly elephant-friendly and a valuable ...

In the study, Conor Myhrvold ’11, civil and environmental engineering professor Elie Bou-Zeid and mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Howard Stone analyzed photographs of elephant hair.