Elephants have long captured human imagination in art and culture ... in the wild—that’s compared to about 500,000 African elephants in the wild. One issue that our scientists study is human–elephant ...

Franko Khoury/ National Museum of African Art, SI Bearers hoisting elephant tusks. Photograph by Robert Visser c. 1890-1900, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives. National Museum of African Art ...

After spending 30 years in an Argentinian zoo, Pupy the African elephant has been transferred to a sanctuary in Brazil. The ...

Pupy, a 35-year-old African elephant, has been relocated from Buenos Aires' Ecopark to Elephant Sanctuary Brazil. After a ...

Pupy the elephant has arrived at her new home in a sanctuary in Mato Grosso, Brazil, following a 2,700-kilometer journey from a zoo converted into an ecological park in Argentina’s capital where she ...

Inside the specialized iron crate strapped to a truck and flanked by vans full of caretakers and veterinarians was Pupy, a female African elephant. She is heading to a better life after spending ...

The 35-year-old African elephant was transported in a large iron crate with thick bars strapped to a truck, a mission for which she had been trained for several months. The truck was flanked by ...