While sipping tea one morning and enjoying the expansive view of a water hole from my 25-foot-tall research tower, I could see a storm of epic proportions brewing. My colleagues, students, volunteers ...

“Musth,” an annual ordeal which turns male elephants into oozing, aggressive pachyderms, appears to have also affected male mammoths that lived thousands of years ago, according to a new study.

Ancient Hindu poetry describes the arrival of bees to “gather sweetness from the temples of [young] musth elephants” 5. In keeping with this poetic observation, we were struck by the powerful ...

An afternoon safari shifted in seconds as an elephant encounter in the Kruger National Park proved exactly why the bush still commands respect. What began as a calm sighting on the S137 route suddenly ...

Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results.

Damaged segments on fossils of male mastodons’ tusks hint that the creatures engaged in fierce combat with each other during a specific time almost every year of their adult lives, a new study ...

IPOH: The Taiping Municipal Council (MPT) has dismissed allegations surrounding the condition and treatment of male elephant Kelat at Tennoji Zoo in Osaka, Japan, saying the animal’s behavioural and ...