Elephant ears are unique. African elephants have large ears. Asian elephants have smaller ears. Ears help regulate body temperature. They also enhance hearing. Elephants use ears for communication.

Elephants in warmer climates need larger ears to stay cool. That’s why African elephants, who live in hotter regions, have much larger ears than their Asian counterparts. The bigger the ear, the ...

The retired elephants of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will be moving to a spacious new home at a Florida conservation center next year, concluding a journey that began in 2015 when ...

In 1975, 19-year-old Joyce Poole was offered the chance of a lifetime: To study elephants in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. Elephant researcher Cynthia Moss, who had just started a study of ...

A lawsuit is seeking to stop Los Angeles Zoo officials from shipping their two surviving elephants to another zoo in Oklahoma. Cher and other advocates want them to go to an animal sanctuary.

A plan that would bring two new elephants to the Tulsa Zoo from their current home in Los Angeles is drawing protests and at least one lawsuit from animal rights activists. Los Angeles Zoo ...

TULSA, Okla. — Two Asian elephants are now at the Tulsa Zoo after controversy over moving them from the Los Angeles Zoo. Billy and Tina arrived in Tulsa on May 21st. The 26-hour drive included ...

TheCan inevitable conclusion, therefore, is that elephants are not artists. Unlike the chimpanzees, they do not explore new patterns or vary the design of their work themselves. Superficially ...

Four of the elephants from the Great Elephant Migration art exhibit will permanently make their home in Hermann Park in Houston. The public art installation of 100 life-size Indian elephant ...

Tensions are growing today in discussions at Los Angeles City Hall between Councilmember Bob Blumenfield and the Los Angeles Zoo’s general manager about the fate of two Asian elephants.

It was just so marvellous,' grinned Saba, on A Life Among Elephants. 'So exciting.' 'Marvellous and exciting' sums up the entire documentary, charting the life's work of Iain and Oria, whose ...