When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...

Asian elephants are on the decline too, with an estimate of only 30,000 left in 2017. They are still being poached in some countries. While many elephants use their tusks as valuable tools and ...

Hence this is of great concern for sustaining a viable wild elephant population. Given the fact that only male Asian elephants have tusks, and the fact that the Sri Lankan species has one of the ...

NHK has uncovered the extent of illegal transactions of ivory, which is still traded around the world despite an ...

She walked in front of the elephant when it took one of its tusks and gored her to death ... Thailand is home to 15% of the 52,000 Asian elephants currently living in the wild.

There are many instances on social media showing people being chased by wild elephants. In one viral video, two men run down ...

Its closest extant relative is the Asian elephant ... Its behaviour was similar to that of modern elephants, and it used its tusks and trunk for manipulating objects, fighting, and foraging.