elephants

‘The Great Elephant Migration’ traveling exhibit imagines a world where humans and wild animals share space

August 27, 2024Environment

The 100 elephant sculptures were made by Indigenous artists across southern India. Each figure is an anatomically perfect re-creation of a real, wild elephant.

A Rohingya man walks with a basket at Kutupalong refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Oct. 13, 2017.

Wild elephants kill four Rohingya refugees taking shelter in Bangladesh

October 14, 2017Conflict

Elephant walk during sunset in Amboseli National Park, Kenya.

Elephants learn to hide by day, forage at night, to evade poachers

September 13, 2017Environment

Survey shows 30 percent decline in African savannah elephant population

September 1, 2016Conflict

Researchers are unlocking ‘mating pandemonium’ and other secrets of forest elephants

August 12, 2014Science

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