One of the videos capturing the most attention from Monday's earthquake near San Diego, is video of a herd of African Elephants at San Diego Zoo Safari Park reacting to the ground shaking. The video ...

UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences’ Shermin de Silva has spent the majority of her scientific career studying elep8ghants. An assistant professor in the Department of Ecology, Behavior and ...

CU Boulder PhD student Liam Jasperse-Sjolander is helping elephant behavioral observation get off the ground—and into the air above Africa Walking through the quiet, lush rainforests of Gabon, on ...

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, ...

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 ...

I’m not alone in being amazed by the social, cognitive, and emotional lives of elephants. I try to read just about everything that is written about these magnificent giants, and when I learned about ...