In the last few decades, dozens of zoos have closed their elephant exhibits — a movement that’s being cheered by animal ...

It’s just the first of what Gainesville boys coach Charlemagne Gibbons hopes is “three or four meetings” on the season. But ...

A new study by researchers in Berlin shows that elephants use their trunks in highly dexterous and creative ways to control and play with the flow of water from hoses.

So when Political Pattie’s took over the space formerly occupied by The Dirty Goose, an iconic gay bar popular with both ...

To cross the border between the two southeast Asian countries, Amelie Maurice-Jones opts for a more serene (and economical) ...

There’s a new artist in town — and she’s painting without a brush. Only nine months old, elephant calf Meru is officially Tucson’s newest Van Gogh, creating abstract paintings with her ...

I’m … a sleep person. And as part of this identity, I take my eight hours a night of shut-eye pretty seriously. I have some ...

There are no elephant rides here. No paint shows or other performances. Visitors can stroll through an open-air museum and learn about Thailand’s national animal. They can make herbal treats for ...

Organisers of India's Kumbh Mela have prepared to host a staggering 400 million devotees at the six-week Hindu festival that ...

That’s certainly how the now-former owners see it a week after shutting down their bipartisanship-themed watering hole, which enraged neighbors by painting a Republican elephant alongside the ...

If an elephant can be imagined, he realizes ... Araya’s preference for coloring outside the lines, for painting in bold, broad, thickly applied brushstrokes and for combining paint with a ...

THE story of Mali, the world's "saddest" elephant, just grew sadder. In December 2024, the remains of Mali, who died of congestive heart failure in November 2023, were brought back to Manila Zoo to be ...