Science news articles about 'elephant'

South Africa has lifted a moratorium on elephant culling to combat a surge in population numbers.

A wildlife preserve in Africa has too many elephants, and they've got a surprising solution for controlling their population.

Sri Lanka on Saturday released eight orphaned baby elephants into the jungle after rescuing them from near certain death, wildlife officials said.

A worldwide search uncovers a mate for a lonely giant elephant beetle which arrived in Britain in a banana load.

... hours or conditions for their animals." However, the picture is not all bad: mistreatment of elephants was far more prevalent in the logging industry than in tourism. According to Professor Duffy ...

... them in specific areas where poaching is known to occur as a means of preventing elephants from being killed. But that will only happen if there is sufficient public pressure to marshal funding for a ...

... a recently published paper in The Royal Society's Biology Letters. "Understanding how elephants and other animal populations react to droughts will be a central component of wildlife management and ...

In Indonesia trained elephants are patrolling remote villages to keep wild elephants out—and out of harm's way.

Beyond the debate about what to do with the elephant lies a larger struggle between zoos and animal rights groups who would rather see a world without elephant exhibits.

... John Hutchinson from The Royal Veterinary College, London, want to find out more about elephants and the way they move. Are they really that different from other, more fleet-footed species? Are their ...

The baby elephant appears to be in good health and its mother has begun nursing the calf in the wake of her violent initial reaction.

This year poachers have killed 10 percent of the elephants in Africa's largest national park—driven largely by Chinese demand for ivory—park officials say.

The Indonesian government is to double the size of a national park that is one of the last havens for endangered Sumatran elephants and tigers.

Asian elephants can do mathematics, proving their skill at addition in an experiment with their favourite food, a Japanese researcher said Monday.

... to the island of Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race – accidentally saved from extinction by the Sultan of Sulu centuries ago, suggests an ...