Ruth is a 43-year-old African savanna elephant, one of three living at the Milwaukee County Zoo, who needed help to get up ...

Milwaukee is mourning the loss of Ruth, a 43-year-old African savanna elephant who was humanely euthanized Sept. 20 after falling for the second time in a month. While Ruth wasn't the oldest elephant ...

Asian elephants can tell if we pay attention by watching our face and body direction. This shows elephants think deeply about ...

Zookeepers found Ruth, who arrived at the zoo in 2006, down in her stall and unable to get back up, officials say.

With their massive flapping ears and long trunks, it isn't hard to believe that elephants tend to rely on acoustic and ...

Elephants, for instance, primarily draw upon sound and smell cues to converse with peers— elephants’ brain areas associated ...

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 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — An elephant's journey has brought her to Jacksonville. Mundi the elephant landed on the First Coast after traveling by plane on Friday. The flight took approximately three hours, ...

A new 16-year-old African elephant named Titan arrived at Zoo Atlanta this week from Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas. The 8,200-pound elephant was born in South Africa in Eswatini and was ...