The Great Elephant census, an ambitious two-year initiative funded by an American philanthropist for $7 million, aims to count all of the elephants on the continent of Africa in order to save the ...

When the arithmetic-performing celebrity horse Clever Hans was exposed as a phony in 1907, we lost faith in the math skills of our animal kin. But new research shows Clever Hans’ owner should have ...

The species of elephant, important in helping rainforests to regenerate, is notoriously hard to assess since they are spread across remote, dense jungles in 22 African countries.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 16 (Reuters Life) - An internationally recognized technique of counting dung has led to the discovery of the largest-known population of endangered Asian elephants living in ...

Mysuru: In the wake of increasing human-elephant conflict in the border areas of the southern states of India, a synchronised elephant population estimation exercise is being conducted on the ...