It would be the first hard evidence that elephants were used in battle by General Hannibal. Source link

Indianapolis ZooThe Prince of Wales has paid tribute to pioneering elephant conservationist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who died aged 83 at his home in Nairobi on Monday.Douglas-Hamilton spent his life studying ...

Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC NewsVictoria Gill/BBCChester Zoo alone has lost seven baby elephants to disease caused by the virusResearchers have made a breakthrough in the development of new vaccine ...

BBCAsian elephant Dhunja died aged 51An Asian elephant that lived at Belfast Zoo for 15 years before being moved to the Netherlands has died.Dhunja died at Royal Burger's Zoo ...

4 days agoBy Helen Briggs, @hbriggs, BBC environment correspondentGettyAn orphaned three-month-old baby Bornean elephant "Joe" The world’s smallest elephant is in danger of dying out as numbers reach just 1,000 in the ...

Lorrain Higbee, zooarchaeologist at Wessex Archaeology, said: "This initial archaeological investigation aims to locate the elephant burial but should we do so, you may be surprised at what we ...

Northern elephant seals sleep underwater for just two hours per day on their months-long foraging journeys. Source link