No passengers were injured, but wildlife veterinary officers are treating a female elephant and an injured calf in the city of Giritale, Sri Lanka’s state-owned Daily News reported Thursday.

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Sri Lanka’s main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary on Sunday with a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece centre, reputedly the world’s first care home for destitute ...

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Instinctively, I raised my right arm to protect myself and I think I said, “No!” When it first investigated me, the elephant kept its distance and stretched out its trunk. Now it put me down, but it ...

“The behaviors that we saw that indicated to us that they felt really comfortable and also excited to see each other were lots of ear flapping, trunk touching, lots of vocalizations,” Gardiner ...

Duo, the green cartoon owl mascot for language learning app Duolingo, has died, and singer Dua Lipa is grieving. The brand announced Duo’s passing on Tuesday, writing in a cheeky statement on th ...

This purposeful tourism movement is particularly evident in Thailand, where elephant encounters have long been a major draw. For decades, visitors have flocked to wildlife 'sanctuaries', eager to ...

Understanding the differences in vocal communication between elephant species is nontrivial ... by blowing air in sudden bursts through the trunk, a form of “second voice” that doesn’t ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Elephants trumpeted, touched trunks and flapped their oversized ears upon reuniting with their herd after a complex, five-day move from an urban Australian zoo to a ...