Source: Esin Üstün, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Decades of research have emphasized the importance of matriarchs in leading elephant herds. A herd, made up of related female ...

While sipping tea one morning and enjoying the expansive view of a water hole from my 25-foot-tall research tower, I could see a storm of epic proportions brewing. My colleagues, students, volunteers ...

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, ...

The bull elephant walked into the Ithumba stockade in 2023 in what Kenya rescuers call a plea for help after being shot with an arrow. Screen grab of Facebook photo shared by the Sheldrick Wildlife ...

Recently there has been an increase in the population of Amboseli elephants with over 200 calves born in 2020. Here we see that 2023 may have another population boom as a bull elephant chases down an ...