Elephants

In a video of the incident, spectators can bee seen rushing from their seats as the elephant carrying a female performer topples into the seating area.

The highway was closed for two hours while emergency workers tried to catch the animals.

A genetic technique could uncover potential new treatments for diseases by studying the animal kingdom.

Clashes like this are on the rise.

The tusks were left unclaimed at the airport for more than two weeks.

"So is animal sentience a big deal? Yes, it is."

The hours-long ordeal ended in a joyful moment between the villagers and the mother.

Elephants are self-aware, autonomous beings capable of expressing empathy towards others—traits that make them "legal persons," according to the Nonhuman Rights Project.

A mother elephant and her calf escaping a fire-throwing mob is now an award-winning photo.

"I only help her with changing the brushes," says her owner.

A new study tracking the movement of the mammals to detect risk of poaching may help save the lives of elephants.

Poison is becoming the weapon of choice for poachers in Zimbabwe, where the elephant population has fallen by 10,000 in the past decade.

A study has found that elephants sleep for as little as two hours each day.

The winter cold aggravates the giant mammals’ arthritis.

Those trying to stop the ivory trade can learn from people tackling drugs trafficking.

The actor had a close encounter with a bull elephant while on safari in South Africa.

'Kenya is making a statement that for us ivory is worthless unless it is on our elephants,' President Uhuru Kenyatta said.

Animal rights activists criticize Ringling Bros. retirement facility and the use of elephants in smaller circuses.

The petition followed the death of a tourist elephant in Cambodia.

Daughters of longer-lived elephant mothers live longer and are more likely to reproduce, have babies that survive

Their human caretakers will visit the 9,000-pound animals in the Sunshine State.

Ringling Brothers’s Center for Elephant Conservation is part day care, part school and part senior center for the company’s circus herd.

After dire warnings, Tanzania is taking baby steps toward saving its elephants from poachers.

Some species get cancer all the time; others, rarely at all. A young researcher in Salt Lake City is trying to figure out why.

Prince Charles and Camilla host a London auction of twenty tuk-tuks for an elephant charity.