A preliminary assessment suggested the animal may be in its mating phase, when male elephants experience heightened aggression due to increased testosterone levels. Officials said such behaviour typic ...

As part of the conservation process for Asian elephants, Bangladesh has taken a new step to retrieve captive elephants from their current owners and rehabilitate them in the wild. According to the ...

The habitat of Asian elephants is shrinking. As a result, encounters between humans and the large mammals are becoming increasingly common in many parts of Asia. Tourists, in particular, are ...

I encountered my first elephant when I was eight years old, while visiting my grandparents in Bangkok. Back in the 1980s, it was common to see the animals roaming the streets, begging for food in the ...

Big cats and birds, even insects, guard their territories rather ferociously, sometimes at the risk of their own lives ...

While many people are fascinated by nonhuman animals, most do not have the time, money, or opportunity to travel to remote natural habitats where these animals live freely. Instead, zoos relocate ...

Ear-flapping youngsters playfully fought, fuzzy toddlers rolled in the dirt, gal-pals squirted each other with water, moms nursed newborns and a brawny frustrated guy sniffed up a potential mate’s ...

Bangladesh is one of the Asian elephant’s habitats, with a presence of 268 giant mammals in its wild; the IUCN declared the species critically endangered in Bangladesh, with the animals living in the ...