A change.org petition to ban tourists from riding elephants when visiting Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia's northern province of Siem Reap has amassed over 31,000 signatures. On April 22, a ...

THE ELEPHANT, my companion for the morning, lumbered out of the woods onto a dirt slope next to a stream in northern Thailand. He appeared calm, ears flapping and tail swinging. But he was 9 feet tall ...

You are surprised by how quiet an elephant is when it wants to be. Here they are padding near silently through the open savanna of South Africa's Kapama Reserve, past giraffes and buffalo and rhinos ...

This summer, people in cubicles around the globe fought off tears at work while reading and watching the story of Raju the elephant. You know Raju, right? He’s the elephant that was rescued from a ...

Elephants are some of the most magnificent animals in the world, but not all tourists are content to simply admire them from a distance. Earlier this week in Cambodia, an elephant named Sambo, who was ...

You don’t see this every day: an Asian elephant walking down a public street, carrying a couple atop its back, in a wedding procession onto the grounds of the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort and ...

Elephants at the San Diego County Fair will continue to offer rides -- at least until 2014, directors for the fair decided Tuesday. Animal rights activists pleaded with the 22nd District Agricultural ...

(CBS) - Do you ever wonder where the phrase "piggy back ride" came from? Nobody rides piggies. Why isn't it a horse back ride? Or even better! An elephant back ride! That would be awesome! This baby ...

Photograph: Shem Compion. Elephant-back safaris take place twice a day at Camp Jabulani. You are surprised by how quiet an elephant is when it wants to be. Here they are padding near silently through ...