The dramatic decline in elephant numbers is largely attributable to illegal hunting and the persistent ivory trade. Efforts ...

World Animal Protection filed a complaint with the USDA, alleging Six Flags Great Adventure failed to provide shade in its ...

Have you ever wondered what the world's largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

World Animal Protection wants Six Flags to relocate its five elephants, but Jackson residents and former safari workers are ...

KARACHI: Despite carrying out several tests, including an X-ray, over the past two days, the authorities in Safari Park ...

A baby elephant trapped alone in a muddy well in Tanzania cried out as it struggled to escape, and the clock was ticking before predators or exhaustion could take over.

African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — The mental well-being of three elephants in a zoo in South Africa is the subject of an unusual court case, with animal welfare groups saying they are depressed and should be ...