African elephants range throughout the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa and the rainforests of Central and West Africa. The ...

With African elephants endangered, a UCLA-led study says their decline could ripple from the rainforest to the concert stage—revealing a critical link between the threatened species and pianos and ...

A new academic study of wild African elephants has determined that they communicate by using unique names for each other, making them a rarity among others in the animal kingdom.

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...

Videos show how African elephants may be the first nonhuman species to use vocal name-like identifiers for each other, suggesting "the capacity for some degree of symbolic thought," researchers said.

First-time mother Zuberi safely gave birth to a female calf at 7:24 this morning in the company of other members of the herd.

The Bay Area's last remaining African elephant, Osh, will be moving from the Oakland Zoo to a Tennessee sanctuary in the fall.

A new 16-year-old African elephant named Titan arrived at Zoo Atlanta this week from Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas.

Signals used by elephants to manage competitive play sessions provide hints to the roots of empathy in social mammals.