given that baby elephants are born with symmetrical trunks. Trunks may hold lessons for the rest of us Brecht also used a micro-CT scanner to look at newborn trunks in detail. He found that the ...

Anand Jagatia finds out why animals evolved bilateral symmetry as the ideal body plan Show more Why do we have two eyes? Two ears? Two arms and two legs? Why is one side of the human body ...

Wild elephants seem to address each other using distinctive, rumbling sounds that could be akin to individual names. That's according to a provocative new study in the journal Nature Ecology ...

A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like calls for each other that resemble human names — a finding that potentially "radically expands the express ...

As Ndlula, Umngani and Khosi felt the ground rattle beneath them, the mighty African elephants sprung into action — forming a tight circle around their youngsters in a moving display of ...

A video from the San Diego Zoo Safari Park taken during an earthquake put complex elephant herd dynamics on display. By Jonathan Wolfe The 5.2 magnitude earthquake that shook Southern California ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- The Rosamond Gifford Zoo will host a series of yoga classes with elephants in August to raise money for elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus, an often deadly virus that claimed ...