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 ...

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.

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.

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

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

Volunteering with elephants isn't about riding them like jungle royalty, or just about tossing sugarcane for selfies. Ethical ...

A new report documents some of the most widespread and damaging droughts in recorded history, between 2023 and 2025, ...

Few conservationists have shaped the public conversation around wildlife protection quite like Peter Knights. Best known for ...

From DNA sequencing to fingerprint analysis, forensic scientists are using groundbreaking new tools to stop animal ...

These findings suggest that their gestures were about getting the apples, showing that the empty tray held no interest for ...

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