Smithsonian scientists work with Myanmar’s forestry department and mahouts to study wild elephants. Mahouts are elephant keepers, trainers and trackers. They can find elephants through the dense ...
The largest land mammal of our time has an evolutionary story at least 60 million years in the making. On Monday, a new exhibit revealing the ‘secret lives’ of the trunked giants will open at New York ...
African forest elephants are harder to study than their savanna relatives. They move through dense rainforest, often unseen, leaving behind tracks, dung, broken vegetation, and other subtle signs.