No people were injured in the accident, despite a partial derailment. As elephant habitat shrinks, such deadly encounters are on the rise. By Pragati K.B. Reporting from Bengaluru, India A passenger ...

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The oldest elephants wandering Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park bear the indelible markings of the civil war that gripped the country for 15 years: Many are tuskless. They’re the lone survivors of ...

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White elephant exchanges are one of the best ways to share gifts (and even laughs) with with a group of friends, family, or coworkers around the holidays. For those not familiar, a white elephant is a ...

Asian elephants once roamed across most of Asia, now they’re restricted to just 15% of their original range, in a number of fragmented and isolated populations around south and south-east Asia. Today, ...

Recall the folk tale of the blind men and the elephant—a trio of blind men come across an elephant and try to describe it to each other with their own limited understandings of the creature. It’s the ...

Indian elephants may spend up to 19 hours a day feeding and they can produce about 220 pounds of dung per day while wandering over an area that can cover up to 125 square miles. This helps to disperse ...

We’ve all seen photographs of majestic elephants sporting long, off-white tusks on either side of their trunks. This ivory is both a beautiful feature and essential to the species’ survival. But what ...