More than 145,000 African forest elephants roam the rainforests of Africa, according to a recent population assessment.

Elephants have distinct names for each other just like humans do, say researchers at Colorado State University who've been studying wild African elephants. One of the study’s authors, George Wittemyer ...

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and ...

It turns out that humans might not be the only species that have individualized identifiers for each other. A new study found that African savanna elephants, an endangered species, have name-like ...

What’s in a name? People use unique names to address each other, but we’re one of only a handful of animal species known to do that, including bottlenose dolphins. Finding more animals with names and ...