Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

Elephants seem easy to figure out with their big bodies, long trunks, and always walking in slow groups. But they’re not simple animals. Behind the usual facts are habits, abilities, and instincts ...

• At birth, an elephant calf typically weighs 230 pounds and stands over 2 ½ feet tall. Baby elephants are nearly blind at birth and rely upon their trunks and their mothers to help them. • A newborn ...

Feces, dung, poop: words that never fail to make a 12-year-old boy laugh. But they have no place in highly advanced scientific processes, right? Well, that’s where you’d be wrong. Researchers ...

Research shows that solitary confinement is damaging to the human brain. The same is likely true for elephants. At Natural Bridge Zoo, in Virginia, the nearly 40-year-old African elephant Asha, ...