The African elephant is the largest land mammal ... The elephant’s trunk is one magnificent multi-tool. The female elephants herd together with juvenile bulls and calves, teaching them where ...

Perth Zoo's last remaining female elephant, Permai, is on the road to her forever home at South Australia's Monarto Safari Park.

The study was made on African elephants, which grow tusks in both sexes. It was then argued that the presence of the two genes in female and male elephants can ensure the growth of tusks.

As seen in Nature of Things documentary Mommy Wildest, female African elephants raise generations of offspring while teaching everything there is to know about their environment and social circles.

Responding to a petition from an animal rights group, the Colorado Supreme Court decided that although these female African elephants are “majestic,” the “interests protected by the great wr ...