Elephants rely on their elders to pass down survival skills and culture. Removing them breaks this culture and puts the ...

A new scientific review has revealed that the loss of experienced elephants—especially matriarchs—cripples the ability of ...

A new study has revealed how the loss of experienced individual elephants stops the knowledge transfer between generations, ...

A new study presents evidence of knowledge transfer in elephant societies and systematically reviews how they respond to ...

In optimal conditions elephants may reproduce at a rate of 6 percent. Elephants have the longest gestation period of any animal at 22 months, and twinning is rare, though it does happen. Elephants do ...

The research was carried out in the 2020-21 dry season, but Sinovas said since elephants reproduce slowly it is not thought that the population size would have changed significantly since then.

For more than a month, staff and volunteers had held a round-the-clock vigil watching a pregnant 24-year-old African elephant on a video monitor, and now they saw the time had come. The elephant ...

The research was carried out in the 2020-21 dry season, but Sinovas said since elephants reproduce slowly it is not thought that the population size would have changed significantly since then.

The research was carried out in the 2020-21 dry season, but Sinovas said since elephants reproduce slowly it is not thought that the population size would have changed significantly since then.