(Steve Stringer Photography/Moment/Getty Images) Which footprint is bigger? An elephant's or a human's? It depends on how you ...

In addition to exposing weaknesses in our Land management policy and practices in terms of Irrigation and Road infrastructure, Soil conservation, crop-diversification, food system and market logistics ...

Farmers have dealt with pests since the advent of agriculture. Cats can catch mice, and fences can keep out rabbits. But what ...

Peer pressure, bad judgment and high-risk actions: adolescent animals and teenage humans face the same kind of coming-of-age challenges, reveals a new book. Adolescent animals and teen humans ...

A major genomic research, “The genomic impact of population connectivity and decline in Africa’s elephants,” published in Nature, examined elephant populations from various countries in Africa and ...

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Pinpointing predators Elephants are able to distinguish between friendly humans and those more likely to pose a threat, based solely on vocal cues, new research shows. The study, published today in ...

Bangladesh is home to only an estimated 227 wild Asian elephants, but up to 100 more migrate through the country each year, mostly through the north and northeast, according to the International Union ...

You'd think elephants would be getting cancer left and right: They are giants of the animal kingdom and have trillions more cells than humans -- cells that, in theory, could turn into cancer over ...

Human-Animal Encounters in the Bible (Wipf and Stock Publishers) addresses a surprisingly under-explored and little discussed ...

The African elephant population was traditionally reliant upon the ability to move around large areas in order to preserve high numbers of healthy individuals and genetic diversity. Over countless ...