The Asian elephant, or Elephas maximus, is a critically endangered species with about 50,000 estimated in the wild, and their numbers are declining, the zoo said.

An Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at the Berlin Zoo can use her trunk to peel bananas before eating them, a new study reveals. She wasn't trained to do this; instead, ...

Even a baby elephant, like this newborn Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), has a well-wrinkled trunk, which is so much more useful than storybook smooth forms. Paul Gilham/Getty Images.

Bornean elephants are smaller than other Asian elephant subspecies, but calling them pygmy elephants is inaccurate.

COLOMBO — On average one elephant has died each day in Sri Lanka in the first three months of this year, ... a subspecies of the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), at about 7,000.

An elephant never forgets – where the snacks are stored. A large wild elephant caught shopkeepers off guard at a convenience store in Thailand on Monday, when it lumbered into the shop in search ...

The team examined four Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) brains and four African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) brains, and they found that about half of elephants’ facial neurons are ...

Europe isn’t known for its elephants. At least, the three species of elephant that traverse Earth today — the African elephants Loxodonta africana and Loxodonta cyclotis and the Asian elephant Elephas ...

Asian elephants once roamed across most of Asia, now they’re restricted to just 15% of their original range, in a number of fragmented and isolated populations around south and south-east Asia. Today, ...

Finally, in collaboration with colleagues in the UK, Denmark, Italy, and elsewhere, we have properly defined, for the first time since Linnaeus named the species in 1758, a type specimen (lectotype) ...

BENGALURU: Karnataka ranks No 1 in south India with an elephant population of 6,395 in 2023. The state recorded a rise of 346 elephants in 2023 when compared to the census of 2017, according to ...