Smart elephants can look before they leap

Like humans, elephants are famously social creatures. But unlike teenage humans, Asian elephants ( Elephas maximus) can think ...

Asian elephants can resist impulsive behavior, researchers find

Researchers at the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College have found that Asian elephants can suppress impulsive behaviors ...
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Endangered Asian Elephant Calf Born at National Zoo After Decades-Long Wait

The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., just welcomed a newborn Asian elephant calf. Asian Elephants are listed as endangered due to habitat loss, poaching, and disease. It marks the first Asian ...
ZME Science

Elephants Know When a Strategy Stops Working and Can Quickly Change Course

Older elephants were slower when the opening changed, even after the researchers accounted for baseline differences in ...
Washington Post

An Asian elephant has been born at the National Zoo

A 300-pound Asian elephant calf was born at the National Zoo early Monday, the zoo announced Tuesday morning. The calf, a female, is the first elephant to be born at the zoo in almost 25 years, and ...
Earth.com

Asian elephants show self-control in a new problem-solving experiment

Sixteen Asian elephants in Thailand gave up a trunk habit as soon as it stopped working, the first evidence of self-control ...
Newsday

Study says endangered Asian elephant population in Cambodia is more robust than previously thought

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A genetic study of Asian elephants in northern Cambodia published Thursday reveals a larger and more robust population than previously thought, raising hopes the endangered ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This ‘Feisty’ Asian Elephant at the National Zoo Is Pregnant. She May Birth the First Calf Born There in Nearly 25 Years

Asian elephant Nhi Linh, who stands in the foreground, is pregnant. Behind her is Spike, who sired the calf. Skip Brown / Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute Elephant ...
Phys.org

Asian elephants have larger brains than their African relatives, researchers discover

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 ...
nationalzoo

Asian Elephant Program Media Resources

Adult female Arrived on Nov. 7, 2022, along with her daughter Nhi Linh. They were a gift to the Smithsonian from the Rotterdam Zoo in the Netherlands. Born May 13, 2003, at the Rotterdam Zoo. Bozie ...
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Smithsonian's National Zoo Opens New Home for Asian Elephants

Correction: A previous version of this news release incorrectly stated the square footage of the Elephant Trails exhibit. Altogether, it is 10,642.6 square meters (114,442.2 square feet). The ...
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Asian elephants have larger brains than their African relatives

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 ...