Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Instagram In a short video shared on social media, three orphaned elephants can be seen acting as lookouts for their ...

Elephants develop successful "coping mechanisms" when returning to the wild from human care, according to new research. Observations show "rewilded" elephants can fit in well within wildlife systems ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A new South African study suggests elephants that once lived in captivity can still readjust successfully ...

Signs of resilience in the wild These results show that rewilded elephants behave very similarly to their wild counterparts, despite some consistent differences, suggesting that they have adapted well ...

Rewilded elephants on !Khamab Kalahari Reserve, who were observed during this research project (from left to right: Ngwedi, Mana, Michael, and Chikwenya). Ex-captive elephants released into the wild ...

Ex-captive elephants released into the wild adapt quite well to the return to wild environments, according to a study published July 29, 2026 in the open access journal PLOS One by Tenisha Roos and ...