NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Iain Douglas-Hamilton, a British-born zoologist and conservationist who dedicated much of his life to protecting elephants, has died, his Save the Elephants group said Tuesday.

A family of elephants in Kenya made an abrupt, coordinated change in direction after catching a scent on the wind — and what they were following turned out to be the remains of a young female elephant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Instagram Grief is not a uniquely human expression, and the emotional lives of animals may be far richer than many ...

A groundbreaking study finds that wild African elephants in Kenya use unique, name-like calls to communicate, revealing their ...

Save the Elephants says "beehive fences" now span more than 14,000 hives at 100 sites across 24 countries, offering farmers a lower-conflict way to protect crops from elephants. On World Bee Day, ...

Nairobi, Kenya - Thursday, November 27 - They say an elephant never forgets - and it turns out they can learn to adapt to drones! Once seen as a source of alarm, drones are now proving to be ...

FEW ANIMALS scare full-grown African elephants. But bees are among them. So it was to bees that Iain Douglas-Hamilton looked when he sought to draw a line between those pachyderms’ domain and humanity ...

For those lucky enough to have witnessed forest elephants roaming in the wild, many, if not all, can attest to their ...

CU Boulder PhD student Liam Jasperse-Sjolander is helping elephant behavioral observation get off the ground—and into the air above Africa Walking through the quiet, lush rainforests of Gabon, on ...