Pai Lin is a 71-year-old elephant who worked in Thailand’s tourism industry for more than 25 years. During that time, she was forced to carry heavy loads, sometimes as many as six tourists at once.

An elephant can lift a log, swing sand onto its back, and still pick up a peanut without crushing it. That mix of strength and delicacy has always looked a little mysterious, especially because ...

Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers describing them as “compassionate.” Wildlife researchers have, for decades, ...

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Indentation performed at the base and the tip of the elephant and cat whiskers showed a transition from a stiff, plastic-like base to a soft, rubber-like tip that could not be permanently indented, a ...