When a 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook the U.S. city of San Diego on April 14, a video showing five African elephants ... that in the video, the elephants’ heads were raised high and their ...

For more than a month, staff and volunteers had held a round-the-clock vigil watching a pregnant 24-year-old African elephant on a video ... waving his tiny trunk with animation.

And using the full weight of his body, he raised ... head and trunk over the head of the other. Susan McConnell Andrew Wicklund, an undergraduate student at Stanford, collects elephant dung ...

On a luxe Hemingway-esque safari in South Africa, close encounters with big game are a regular occurrence, writes Christian Barker.

Elephant caregivers play an important role in their society by comforting and teaching babies when mom is occupied.

African elephants have matriarchal societies ... A younger individual often initiates the greeting, placing the tip of his trunk either within or just at the entrance to the mouth of a buddy ...

During a 5.2-magnitude earthquake in Southern California, a herd of African elephants at the San Diego ... who taps him reassuringly with her trunk. “It's so great to see them doing the thing ...

At the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, a herd of African ... elephant, Khosi, a teenager who helped raise him along with his biological mother, Ndlula, repeatedly tapped him on the back with her trunk ...