We’re always keen to read new studies on elephant behaviour and to learn more about this fascinating and magnificent keystone species, so we found the recent report Multimodal communication and audience directedness in the greeting behaviour of semi-captive...
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...
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 research paper released recently has discovered that African elephants address each other with individual, specific calls – much like how humans use names – to address each other when they interact and communicate. The entire fascinating study can be...
