The best toys to use with an elephant toy are people or toys modeled after other animals. A particularly good match is animals that would co-exist with elephants in the wild.

It turns out African elephants really do get the point. New research suggests these gray pachyderms can follow human gestures—like pointing—just as dogs are able to follow when we point to ...

by Bill Clark Modern DNA technology is helping to protect African wild animals from the most ancient of criminal abuses—poaching for bushmeat. Long before elephant ivory carvings became fashionable, ...

In the remote African savannah, as the sun sets, two tall trees stand proud - and straining only slightly under the weight of an elephant tip-toeing across a tight rope strung between them.