Researchers at the CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College have found that Asian elephants can suppress impulsive behaviors ...

Experiments show Asian elephants are able to deny their impulses and choose a more rational course of action to solve ...

Scientists surprised to find Asian elephants can resist impulses, plan and act - Research could help develop effective ...

Sixteen Asian elephants in Thailand gave up a trunk habit as soon as it stopped working, the first evidence of self-control ...

An elephant from Thailand helped researchers demonstrate that the species can resist impulsive behaviour and make more considered decisions, according to a new study. Scientists tested 16 Asian ...

Older elephants were slower when the opening changed, even after the researchers accounted for baseline differences in ...

Like humans, elephants are famously social creatures. But unlike teenage humans, Asian elephants ( Elephas maximus) can think ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...

Wild Asian elephants slink quietly away at the sound of a growling tiger, but trumpet and growl before retreating from leopard growls, researchers have found. The work could help Indian farmers ...

Asian elephant calf Linh Mai will make her public debut at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute this Earth Day, April 22. She was born Feb. 2 to mother Nhi Linh and father ...

In a remarkable display of emotion, elephants often demonstrate a keen interest in the remains of their own kind, revisiting and examining skeletal structures with their trunks. Studies reveal that ...