Wild African elephants living in the Mount Elgon region of Kenya appear to seek out specific plants when unwell. Local ...

Researchers identified eight plant species that sick elephants appear to seek out for a specific purpose, plus five used in ...

On an African savanna, an elephant’s presence can be measured in ways that have little to do with the animal itself. Beneath the shade of acacia trees and across open grasslands, enormous quantities ...

Learn how African elephants treat their ailments with plants and other natural materials, showing the significance of self-medication in the animal kingdom.

African elephants use dozens of different medicinal plants to treat themselves and their families when they are sick, research reveals.

The locals reported the use of 35 plant species in total, as well as four types of soil or mineral. Mount Elgon’s elephants are already famous for mining salt from caves, sometimes going up to 200 ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as ...

People have had a devastating impact on African elephant and rhino numbers, but in parts of Africa we’re helping these amazing animals to recover People have had a devastating impact on African ...

A new 16-year-old African elephant named Titan arrived at Zoo Atlanta this week from Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas. The 8,200-pound elephant was born in South Africa in Eswatini and was ...

Elephant conservation is a major priority in southern Africa, but habitat loss and urbanization mean the far-ranging pachyderms are increasingly restricted to protected areas like game reserves. The ...

Populations of forest elephants in the epicentre of the ivory poaching crisis have declined by 62 percent in the past decade, according to a report released today by conservationists. The study, which ...

A POACHER has been trampled to death by a herd of elephants just as he was “lining up” to shoot and kill a prized white rhino ...