"We are really on the precipice." Researchers make concerning discovery after studying elephant behavior: 'This is kind of code red' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Scientists knew almost nothing about how ebony trees, used for guitars and piano keys, grow. A new study reveals the secret ingredient — elephants.

An elephant’s strength is so great that it can take down trees simply by tugging at the branches with its trunk. A video from the YouTube channel, PETER FERNANDES (GRENT WORLD), shows one determined ...

The sharp reduction of their population has a knock-on effect on the Congo Basin forest itself. This is because African ...

Safari guests in South Africa watched in awe recently as an elephant uprooted and toppled a fairly large tree. “Unparalleled strength. He made it look so easy,” Tim Prettejohn, a guide for Dulini ...

In 2017, when Vincent Deblauwe joined the Congo Basin Institute in Cameroon to study African ebony, he soon realized the fate ...

Ants known to defend certain species of Acacia trees from elephant predation deter the massive herbivores so effectively that they are impacting entire savanna ecosystems, according to a study ...

HOHENWALD, Tenn. (WTVF) — Every year, The Elephant Sanctuary collects Christmas trees to help supplement the elephants' winter diets. Trees can be delivered to the Elephant Discovery Center at 27 East ...