Asian elephant Punch and African elephant Mikki are set to leave Louisville Zoo in the US in order to relocate to Tennessee Elephant Sanctuary. The extract below is taken as a direct quote from the Louisville Zoo website. You can read the entire piece here:...
A fascinating study has further confirmed the importance of multigenerational family structures among Asian elephants. Research has now evidenced that calves born into an environment where they have a grandmother are much more likely to survive and grow into...
For the first time in history, scientists have released findings including photographic and post mortem evidence of Asian elephants deliberately burying the dead bodies of their calves in North Bengal, India. Five calves were documented as case studies, being found in...
After living alone for decades at the zoo in Puerto Rico, Mundi the elephant is now living among other elephants at a refuge in Georgia. Mundi was among hundreds of animals who were removed from the Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo, after the U.S. Department of Justice oversaw...
A fascinating discovery in South Africa in 2019 of historic elephant tracks could be the first documented example of trace fossil evidence illustrating the way elephants communicate with each other using seismic, underground vibrations. The intriguing report detailing...
A recent research study confirms the need for ‘safe’ landscapes to be protected and connected to enable African Savannah elephants to thrive. The study from Science Advances ‘collected 713 survey estimates of elephant population sizes from 103...
