Researchers used AI to determine that wild African elephants likely have names for each other, suggesting a capacity for abstract thought.

Wild African elephants may address each other using individualized calls that resemble the personal names used by humans, a new study suggests. While dolphins are known to call one another by ...

Some of Thailand's most influential elephant owners -- those who presumably benefit most from the Thai ivory trade -- have joined WWF in calling on the Thai prime minister to shut down the country's ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Over the years, researchers who study elephants have noticed an intriguing phenomenon. Sometimes when an elephant makes a vocalization to a group of other elephants, all of them ...

In a bid to quench the thirst for human curiosity, a researcher once tried to study elephants' reactions to death. The intense emotional response from a particular elephant family unnerved the ...

Heart-rending images of an emaciated elephant at a festival in Sri Lanka have recently surfaced, prompting animal activists to urge tourists to boycott some attractions in the island nation. "This is ...

What’s in a name? People use unique names to address each other, but we’re one of only a handful of animal species known to do that, including bottlenose dolphins. Finding more animals with names and ...

Humans have a long history of inventing names for elephants. There is Disney’s Dumbo, of course, and Jumbo (a 19th-­century circus attraction) and the famed painting elephant Ruby from the Phoenix Zoo ...