NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Iain Douglas-Hamilton, a British-born zoologist and conservationist who dedicated much of his life to protecting elephants, has died, his Save the Elephants group said Tuesday.

A family of elephants in Kenya made an abrupt, coordinated change in direction after catching a scent on the wind — and what they were following turned out to be the remains of a young female elephant ...

Nairobi, Kenya - Thursday, November 27 - They say an elephant never forgets - and it turns out they can learn to adapt to drones! Once seen as a source of alarm, drones are now proving to be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Instagram Grief is not a uniquely human expression, and the emotional lives of animals may be far richer than many ...

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 the pachyderms’ domain and humanity’s ...

In a remarkable display of emotion, elephants often demonstrate a keen interest in the remains of their own kind, revisiting and examining skeletal structures with their trunks. Studies reveal that ...

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 ...

CU Boulder PhD student Liam Jasperse-Sjolander is helping elephant behavioral observation get off the ground—and into the air above Africa Walking through the quiet, lush rainforests of Gabon, on ...