Elephant news, features and articles

The world's largest origami elephant collection is going on display at the Bronx Zoo.

The Bronx Zoo recently earned a place in the Guinness World Records for the most origami elephants -- 78,654 to be precise.

An unorthodox conservation strategy is teaching elephants to stay away from villages.

Why would the largest mammal on land be afraid of one of the smallest?

Here's how elephantiasis affects the body.

Elephants have many admirable qualities: They have an excellent sense of smell, rarely get cancer and have complex social lives. But, perhaps unsurprisingly, they can't jump.

Elephants can blow air through their trunks to help them grab food that is hard to reach, according to a recent study.

Group living helps elephants with the difficult decisions that they make on a regular basis – how are these bonds affected by poaching?

Younger female elephants take up new social positions when an older matriarch dies, forging links with other elephant daughters that mirror mothers' connections.

Cancer is less prevalent in elephants than in humans, in part because the giant animals have more copies of a gene that suppresses tumor growth, a new study finds.