13-10-11 When people want to direct the attention of others, they naturally do so by pointing, starting from a very young age. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, on October 10 have shown that elephants spontaneously get...

13-03-05 African forest elephants are being poached out of existence. A study just published in the online journal PLOS ONE shows that across their range in central Africa, a staggering（蹒跚的，令人惊愕的） 62 percent of all forest elephants have been kille...

13-03-01 The Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) largest remaining forest elephant population, located in the Okapi Faunal Reserve (OFR), has declined by 37 percent in the last five years, with only 1,700 elephants now remaining, according to wildlife surve...

12-12-13 University of British Columbia and Oxford University researchers have revealed the secrets of survival of an endangered population of African elephants in the unforgiving Sahara desert. The animals have the largest migration among elephants, the stu...

12-11-02 Elephants have four distinct personalities that help their herd survive in the African bush, scientists have found. 科学家发现，大象有四种性格，帮助它们的群落在非洲丛林中生存下来。 With their grey skin, mournful eyes and slow plodding（沉重缓慢的）...

12-11-02 喜欢重口味咖啡的人们注意了！泰国一家高级酒店最近推出一款名为黑象牙的大象屎咖啡，是由大象吞食、消化并随粪便排出的咖啡豆磨制而成的，每杯售价25美元。 For those who like their coffee with a strong nose Thailand could be the ideal destination, after a bl...

12-08-06 African elephants are known to be great communicators that converse with extremely low-pitched vocalizations, known as infrasounds, over a distance of miles. These infrasounds occupy a very low frequency range -- fewer than 20 Hertz, or cycles, per...

11-12-13 Elephants have long been known to be part of the Homo erectus（直立人） diet. But the significance of this specific food source, in relation to both the survival of Homo erectus and the evolution of modern humans, has never been understood -- until...

11-11-11 Humans play a far greater role in the fate of African elephants than habitat, and human conflict in particular has a devastating impact on these largest terrestrial（陆地的） animals, according to a new University of British Columbia study published...

11-07-17 在印度喀拉拉邦，大象在寺庙工作几个月后将被送去度假。在一个月的假期里，它们可以尽情放松身心，在池塘里享受SPA水疗的乐趣，还可以享用各种食物并品尝专家特制的营养餐，以帮助其恢复体力并为下一阶段的工作做好准备。 Indian elephants from a Hindu temple in Ker...