A recent study suggests that the large mammals may seek out parts of bananas and papayas when they’re suffering from gut ...

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Understanding how elephants use their trunks to pick up small objects could lead to robots designed with flexible hands or grippers, according to a new study that includes Rochester Institute of ...

Coffee beans that pass through the digestive tracts of animals get their unique flavors from the activity of gut microbes, report researchers from the Institute of Science Tokyo. The guts of Asian ...

Two young male elephants greet the dominant male who invites younger males to accompany and leave with him. Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell & Tim Rodwell When scientists study elephant communications, they ...

In the study, Conor Myhrvold ’11, civil and environmental engineering professor Elie Bou-Zeid and mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Howard Stone analyzed photographs of elephant hair.

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, ...

Research on the rumbles of wild elephants suggest that these animals address each other with unique, name-like vocalizations. (Story aired on All Things Considered on June 10, 2024.) Some wild African ...

Craig, one of Africa’s last super tuskers, has died peacefully in Amboseli, leaving behind towering tusks, decades of ...