All Articles Tagged As: elephants

Scientists find elephant memories may hold key to survival (8/12/2008)

Recent study suggests experience of old matriarchs may help herds survive in age of climate change ...> Full Article

Ivory poaching at critical levels: Elephants on path to extinction by 2020? (8/3/2008)

African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989 ...> Full Article

'Extinct' elephant may have been found again - on a different island (4/20/2008)

The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native 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 ...> Full Article

Trees, Ants and Elephants: Balance Gone Bad (1/22/2008)

researchers in Africa have a riveting tale of natural balance gone bad, with an unhappy moral for other ecosystems: This could happen to you. ...> Full Article

Social standing influences how far elephants travel for food, study finds (10/29/2007)

When resources are scarce, who you know and where you're positioned on the social totem pole affects how far you'll go to search for food. At least that's the case with African elephants, according to a study led by ecologists at the University of California, Berkeley, who collaborated with researchers at Save the Elephants, a non-profit research organization based in Kenya, and at the University of Oxford in England. ...> Full Article

Elephants can 'smell danger' (10/18/2007)

Elephants can tell whether a human is a friend or foe by their scent and colour of clothing. ...> Full Article

Bee buzz could scare away elephants (10/9/2007)

Strategically placed beehives might offer a natural elephant deterrent in areas where humans are encroaching on elephant ranges, according to Oxford University scientists. ...> Full Article