Elephants are known for their excellent memory. They can remember water sources, migration routes, and even other elephants they’ve met years ago.

The transnational trade of modern ivory is banned in a bid to protect elephants, but the trade of ancient mammoth tusks is ...

The intelligent rodents have a particularly keen nose and have been previously trained to detect landmines and tuberculosis.

The African giant pouched rat is the world’s largest rat, weighing three pounds on average ... The target odors were pangolin scales, rhino horns, elephant tusks and African blackwood, a tree that is ...

The world’s largest rats could help conservationists in the ongoing fight against the illegal wildlife trade. Researchers have trained African giant pouched rats to pick up the scent of highly-sought ...

Species around the world are threatened by the illegal wildlife trade, which peddles in wares such as pangolin scales, ...

Elephants appear to be exceptionally good with hoses, possibly linked to the similarity between the trunk and the hose.

Elephants, the largest land mammals on ... and guidance. Elephant calves are born with a fuzzy covering of hair that ...

“Our study shows that we can train African giant pouched rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife, even when it has been ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — A veterinary dentist came to the rescue of a Sedgwick County Zoo elephant that suffered a broken tusk in a fight with another male elephant. The zoo says Callee got into a ...

Researchers train African giant pouched rats to sniff out smuggled species.