In “Human-elephant coexistence through aligning conservation with societal aspirations,” Global Field Program graduate Antoinette van de Water et al. focus on community-based conservation initiatives ...

Elephants use their trunks much like a human uses their hands: to pick up food and manipulate objects. A new study finds that tiny, specialized whiskers on elephant trunks help them do it.

As the autumnal harvest of maize and rice ripens in the fertile plains of the Terai, human-elephant conflict increases. On 22 October, a wild elephant killed five and injured five others in eastern ...

WWF-Indonesia conducts training activities for members of the Task Force continued Borneo Elephant handling conflicts, which is to increase their capacity in terms of escorting the elephant habitats ...

If you ever get an opportunity to go to Thailand, chances are you'll come home with a souvenir with the country's national animal on it…the Asian elephant. Elephants are more than a point of pride in ...

“The elephants didn’t mean them any harm” explained a resident from Bannerghatta, India who has to be careful at night in case the animals trample them. It is about living with nature’s large ...

Researchers in the United States and China announced in April that they had successfully injected human cells into a monkey embryo for the first time. These chimeras, organisms that have multiple sets ...

An elephant's trunk can surpass a human's height and lift trees -- a marvel of strength that's conversely so gentle it can ...