Visitors to Sri Lanka tend to stay in the south of the island, or explore the tea plantations and ancient Buddhist sites in its central highlands. Few venture to the north of the country, where civil ...

BELA-BELA, South Africa (AP) — Tuesday is World Elephant Day. Here are five things to know about the largest land animals on our planet. Tell them apart by their ears There are three species of ...

This is the dramatic moment a group of locals used firecrackers to scare away a herd of elephants. Forestry officers and villagers lit up the loud explosives to keep the jungle beasts from entering ...

In the above encounter, neither the elephant nor the lion appears to be happy about running into each other. Although coalitions of lions have been known to hunt elephants, an elephant is far too ...

LANGKAT, Indonesia — A critically endangered Sumatran elephant was found dead April 4 on the border of the Gunung Leuser National Park in Sumatra’s Langkat district, officials said. The elephant was ...

Indonesian authorities rescued a critically endangered baby Sumatran elephant after it became separated from its mother at a palm oil plantation, a local official said on Tuesday. Sumatran elephants ...

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 much ...