The Ichihara Elephant Kingdom zoo is popular for its elephant show. Seven Asian and African elephants show off their wide-ranging entertainment skills as they play soccer, dance and draw paintings.

September 22 marks Elephant Appreciation Day, a day just for appreciating some of the biggest creatures in the animal kingdom.

Tarangire-Nationalpark, or Tarangire National Park near Arusha, Tanzania, is a wild elephant haven and baobab-studded savanna that offers U.S. travelers an intimate East African safari far from the ...

Wild African elephants living in the Mount Elgon region of Kenya appear to seek out specific plants when unwell. Local experts also reported mothers administering plant-based "medicine" to their ...

A new study taps into local knowledge to identify dozens of medicinal plants used elephants in the Mount Elgon region of Kenya. However, scientists caution that more research is needed.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades.

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as ...

1. Does recent research resolve once and for all whether there are two separate species of African elephant? 2. What are the conservation implications if there are two species? We would have to ...

Surveying elephants is hard, risky work. Dedicated biologists have been doing this challenging task across Africa for decades. Systematic surveying started in the late 1960s but has been sporadic, as ...