Christmas may be over, but the holiday energy is still very much alive across the islands. From festive lights in Honolulu to ...

Suddenly, one of them was right behind me. As I jumped out of bed and across to the door, I heard rips and the sound of ...

C'sar the elephant, the N.C. Zoo's longest-tenured and one of its most charismatic residents, has died. The park announced ...

Deciding where to do in 2026 can be challenging, but there are plenty of destinations in the U.S. offering exciting events ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

As of July, about 198 wild elephants were reported dead over the first seven months of the year in Sri Lanka. The cumulative elephant death toll for 2024 stood at 388 on the island. Texas A&M Ecology ...

Elephant populations in Southern Africa are stable or growing, but the space available for them is not. Often, elephant populations are constrained, increasing their impact on the environment or ...

FEW ANIMALS scare full-grown African elephants. But bees are among them. So it was to bees that Iain Douglas-Hamilton looked when he sought to draw a line between those pachyderms’ domain and humanity ...

Video by @cincinnatizooYoung Kabir is learning elephant life! 🐘🐾 Here, he’s trying to get Sabu to play, and Sabu balances fun with teaching him social rules. This playful, positive moment shows how ...

WACO, Texas — Cameron Park Zoo is mourning the loss of two beloved animals, African elephant Tembo and Sumatran tiger Maharani, who died Thursday, leaving zoo staff and volunteers heartbroken. Tembo, ...

In Botswana, coexisting with the country's 130,000 elephants can be a daily negotiation. For rural families, tending a crop means hoping these "gentle giants" don't wander through and cause damage ...

Elephant mortality in Jharkhand has reached critical levels, primarily driven by anthropogenic pressures and habitat degradation, which has intensified their movement into human-dominated landscapes.