For the first time, researchers have shown that Asian elephants in Sri Lanka are scared of honey bees, much like their African counterparts. Playbacks have been used for many years to explore the ...

With the help of an acoustic camera that visualizes sound pressure, researchers investigated the calls of Asian elephants. The elephants emitted their low frequency 'rumbles' mainly through their ...

Elephants learn to imitate sounds that are not typical of their species, the first known example after humans of vocal learning in a non-primate terrestrial mammal. The discovery, reported in today's ...

Elephants have an unusual ability to mimic and learn new sounds which scientists believe they use as a form of acoustic communication. Birds, bats, primates and marine mammals do it but Joyce Poole, ...

Working elephants of mountainous Myanmar and northeastern India haul timber or transport people by day, then return to the forest at night. In his new book titled for these elephants, Giants Of The ...

A woman in Thailand found an unexpected visitor in her house in the middle of the night last weekend – a wild Asian elephant. “We were sleeping and woke up by a sound inside our kitchen,” said ...

Two new female Asian elephants, 19-year-old Trong Nhi (trong-nEE) and her daughter, 9-year-old Nhi Linh (nEE-lin), are now on public view at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology ...

Four Asian elephants were introduced Sunday to the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden and are in their new habitat, Elephant Trek, which is scheduled to open next summer. The elephants SheRa, Kabir, ...

While live bees can be used as a deterrent to keep elephants away from farms, a new technology fills in for cases where a buzz without the sting is preferable. By Rachel Nuwer It’s a familiar, dreaded ...

Working elephants of mountainous Myanmar and northeastern India haul timber or transport people by day, then return to the forest at night. In his new book titled for these elephants, Giants Of The ...