Elephants are known for their intelligence and social complexity, and recent observations show they might even engage in playful pranks. A new study documents Asian elephants’ skillful use of hoses ...

Whether or not it’s possible to teach an old elephant new tricks, a 34-year-old pachyderm at Zoo Atlanta has recently taught researchers a thing or two about how elephants suck up food and water with ...

A petition to shut down a zoo at which elephants are made to perform underwater tricks in performances laid on for visitors has gathered over 134,000 signatures. The Khao Kheow Open Zoo in Chonburi, ...

A two-year-old elephant that was forced to perform tricks to entertain tourists three times a day at a zoo in Thailand, has died after his back legs snapped. The animal had been trying to support ...

With the Phuket zoo closed due to COVID-19, the two companions will be permanently released into their new 250-acre sanctuary home Two elephants that spent years in Thailand's Phuket Zoo, where they ...

A study published in the April 3 issue of Nature solves a longstanding mystery about elephant speeds by clocking the animals at 15 miles per hour. That's faster than reliable observations of 10 mph ...

Real bananas don't peel themselves. People can do it. Orangutans can do it. But you try peeling *** banana with *** trunk which is why researchers went bananas over pang pa at the Berlin Zoo. And how ...