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For African elephants in zoos, obesity is likely contributing to infertility. To combat problem, one group of researchers is looking for a better way to measure body fat on the huge animals.

Researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, are investigating why elephant seals have high levels of carbon monoxide in their blood.

Despite some human-like characteristics, elephants' mating behaviors are very different from our own.

Scientists never understood exactly how finely tuned elephants' hearing is, until researchers tried to see if the pachyderms could distinguish among the sounds made by different groups of humans.

Asian elephants may touch each other and "talk" to each other during times of distress, which suggests the animals are capable of empathy and reassurance, according to new research.

About 65 percent of forest elephants were killed, mostly for their ivory, across central Africa in the last decade, new research finds.

To give park rangers in Africa an upper hand in the fight against poachers, conservationists are bringing drones to the places where vulnerable elephants and rhinoceroses roam.