Parbati Barua, India's first female elephant mahout, trained approximately five hundred jumbos. She received the Padma Shri ...

In India's southern state of Kerala, robotic elephants are replacing live ones in temple festivals. Rising concerns about ...

One hundred Indian elephants are transforming Boston’s Commonwealth Avenue Mall in an immersive sculpture installation to ...

Visitors will be able to get close to — and even touch — 100 life-size sculptures of Indian elephants which are beginning a cross-country journey. The Great Elephant Migration traveling art exhibition ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Bangladesh has a resident population of about 270 Indian elephants (Elephas maximus indicus), considered critically endangered within the country.

Indian elephants are one of three extant subspecies of Asian elephants. Smaller than African elephants, Indian elephants have convex backs with their highest body point on their heads. Males reach an ...

India's wild elephant population estimates have dropped sharply by a quarter, a government survey incorporating a new DNA system has found, marking the most accurate but sobering count yet. India is ...

In central India's dry forests, community trackers hunt for signs of elephants to feed into an alert system that is helping prevent some of the hundreds of fatal tramplings each year. Boots crunch on ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

One hundred Indian elephants have migrated to Boston, Massachusetts, for a weekslong stay. The art installation, handcrafted by indigenous artisans from India's Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, will be on ...

When an elephant calf was found dead on the Sesar tea estate last year in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, workers there buried the body and erected a small temple to Ganesha over the grave.