Elephants seem easy to figure out with their big bodies, long trunks, and always walking in slow groups. But they’re not simple animals. Behind the usual facts are habits, abilities, and instincts ...

Elephants are the largest land mammals on the planet. They are peaceful and intelligent creatures, even worshipped by some cultures around the world. And for World Elephant Day, Aug. 12, we are ...

To celebrate, we picked 18 fun facts about the largest land mammal. For example, they "hug" their trunks to say hello to each other. An elephant's trunk weighs 400 pounds, but it can pick up things as ...

• At birth, an elephant calf typically weighs 230 pounds and stands over 2 ½ feet tall. Baby elephants are nearly blind at birth and rely upon their trunks and their mothers to help them. • A newborn ...

What is the African elephant? African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their Asian cousins and can be identified by their larger ears that look somewhat ...

Feces, dung, poop: words that never fail to make a 12-year-old boy laugh. But they have no place in highly advanced scientific processes, right? Well, that’s where you’d be wrong. Researchers ...

An elephant's trunk is an incredibly versatile tool, containing over 150,000 muscle units and serving as a nose, hand, horn, and hose. Like humans, elephants can be left or right-tusked, favouring one ...

World Elephant Day takes place on August 12 and the theme for 2025 celebrates the matriarch elephant. A matriarch elephant is the leader of the elephant family or herd. She is the oldest, most ...

Elephants are the world’s largest land animals. There are lots of different kinds. There’s the African Forest elephant, the African Savannah elephant and the Asian elephant. You can tell them apart by ...

When human settlements and wildlife bump into each other it can cause big problems, so scientists are working on an ...