Both male and female African elephants grow big tusks, but only a few male Asian elephants grow full-size tusks. The rest of the males and females grow smaller tusks, called tushes. Elephants use ...

Elephants are one of the most sophisticated tool-using animals on the planet, and that’s thanks to both their big brains and the combination of both tusks and a trunk. These animals are capable ...

Read here and here and here to learn more about elephants. Found along the coastlines and on the ice floes of the Arctic ...

One elephant managed to escape, but the other, a tusker, got its left tusk stuck on the lorry. Fortunately, the collision wasn’t head-on, so the tusker ran toward a small forest patch on the other ...

African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury ... I mean, this isn't that big of a surprise. How intelligent are they ...

Things can get tense around watering holes in Africa. Resources can be limited, and even big herbivores may get aggressive over who has the right to drink the water. We are lucky enough to see some ...

DESCRIPTION: Forest elephants are the smaller of the two African elephant species. They also have straighter, thinner tusks, more rounded ears and differently shaped skulls. Both elephant species ...

Tragically though, for the second time in the last century, elephants in Africa are being slaughtered for their ivory tusks at rates that are causing severe population declines across the continent.

The heaviest tusk they’ve got weighs 64 kg and ... Kennedy says seeing the “big five” — elephants, lions, Cape Buffalo, leopards and rhinos — is one of the top three reasons people ...

A carcass of a Makna elephant (male elephant without tusks) was found in the jungles of Bagdogra in the Kurseong division of Darjeeling, an official said on Sunday. According to Rahul Deb Mukherjee, ...