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Three decorated elephants adorned with colorful ornaments and gold headdresses stand in a sheltered area with attendants nearby.

Mechanical elephants replace real ones for ceremonies in South India

Lifestyle & Belief

Elephants have been important for Hindu rituals for centuries, but in response to campaigns by animal rights activists, human-elephant conflict and the captive mammals’ declining numbers, artists in India are now creating mechanical elephants as replacements.

Communities in southern India search for solutions for growing encounters with elephants

Environment

Migrating elephants are causing more encounters with humans in populated areas of southern India

Environment

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

Environment
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

Conflict
Elephant walk during sunset in Amboseli National Park, Kenya.

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

Environment

Normally elephants forage for food and migrate in daylight — which is when the poachers go after them.

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Survey shows 30 percent decline in African savannah elephant population

Conflict

Researchers say the dramatic drop, revealed by a three-year aerial study, is largely due to poaching.

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

Science

In the wild, animal mating is rarely a private event. Now, research shows that forest elephants take this idea to a whole new level, and the discoveries could help shed light on their relatively mysterious lives.In the wild, animal mating is rarely a private event. Now, research shows that forest elephants take this idea to a whole new level, and the discoveries could help shed light on their relatively mysterious lives.