There’s an Indian folktale about six blind men who encountered an elephant for the first time. The first touched the side of the huge animal, and concluded that it’s a “wall.” The second put his hand ...

The Forest Department in Coimbatore on Saturday arrested four persons, who were found carrying an elephant tusk, leopard canines, and claws. The arrested have been identified as S. Kiruba ...

Tula-Tu becomes more and more elephant-like every day. Sure, she’s still pretty tiny — for an Asian elephant calf, at least (At just over 1 month old, she now weighs 287 pounds. When she was ...

To build our rubric, we read the research, talk to experts, and add a trunk-load of elephant experience. Pop culture says the pachyderm never forgets, and that they're super smart, and that their ...

It flaps its ears and squirts water from a waving trunk, but this elephant is a life-size mechanical ... with five people killed. In one, an elephant at a festival was spooked by fireworks, jabbed its ...