THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: While India's wild elephant population has dropped by 25 per cent in just eight years, the Western Ghats remain a key sanctuary, home to 80 per cent of the country's elephants.

(Biju BORO/AFP/AFP) India's wild elephant population estimates have dropped sharply by a quarter, a government survey incorporating a new DNA system has found, marking the most accurate but sobering ...

India's wild elephant population estimates have dropped sharply by a quarter, a government survey incorporating a new DNA system has found, marking the most accurate but sobering count yet. India is ...

Cora, the 67-year-old Asian elephant who appeared in the movie "Smokey and the Bandit II," was euthanized Oct. 7 at the Topeka Zoo. The elephant was one of the oldest in the United States, living well ...

Tourists on a canoe safari in Botswana were lucky to survive a terrifying attack by a raging bull elephant that was caught on video in the Okavango Delta. Two couples in separate canoes were being ...

Watch an African elephant rise from a sitting position. Social media car stunt challenges turn deadly “Survivor 49” host Jeff Probst calls first vote out 'clearly personal' Trump says he was victim of ...

In the past three decades, poaching has decimated Africa’s now-critically endangered forest elephants, and as a result, their vital role as seed dispersers of many forest plants has been disrupted. A ...

A new study shows how African elephant poop helps make American-made guitars — and how poaching of elephants is contributing to a decrease in ebony trees. The world is connected in surprising ways. A ...

The world is connected in surprising ways. A new study gives the latest example - how African elephant poop helps make American-made guitars. As NPR's Nate Rott reports, the study also comes with a ...