During the experiment, elephants in Zimbabwe showed an ability to change their gestures to something more elaborate when they didn't get exactly what they wanted.

Humans have long mastered the art of expressing their goals and needs through both language and gestures. A similar behavior ...

A former zoo owner, Frank Thompson, brought Connie to the U.S. with seven other elephant babies who were orphaned in Zimbabwe in 1987 when poachers killed the adults in the herd for their tusks.

Researchers reported that the animals are capable of making very deliberate gestures to communicate their desire for more.

Southern Africa’s elephant population has grown to over 230,000 – a conservation success that is creating new problems for ...

WITH his wife seated on the carrier and their one-year-old son on her back, Honest Mudenda (28) cycled 10 kilometres on a perry bike to register a birth certificate last Wednesday, a two-hour ride ...

Many studies about gestures focus on primates. But elephants are another natural subject for this research because they live ...

Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe's largest wildlife sanctuary, is facing a looming ecological disaster as its overpopulation of ...

Spread This NewsBy BBC News TWO female tourists, including a British pensioner, have been killed by a charging elephant while ...

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Born Free is extremely concerned to see videos and images circulated featuring the African elephants at Shanghai Wild Animal ...

Two elderly female tourists from the U.K. and New Zealand have been killed by an elephant while on a walking safari in a ...