Elephants and their complex social behaviors 7 Articles

by Aldo Bonincontro

The elephants are herbivorous mammals belonging to the Proboscidates order, that were very common in the world in the Quaternary and Tertiary geological ages, but today limited to 2 species; the AFRICAN and the INDIAN elep...read more

by Cathy Linton

Elephants or pachyderms (meaning thick-skinned) are the largest land mammals living today. There are two different species of Elephant the African and the Asian. All Elephants are herbivores and spend the majority of ev...read more

by L'emore

Elephants are highly social and intelligent creatures, with social networks that can grow to be as large as a human's. Elephant mothers are very tender, protective, and nurturing to their young. In fact, all the female e...read more

by Gilbert Okindo

Watching elephants stroll in the plains of the expansive Maasai Mara in Kenya is a lifetime experience.Watching them for a number of days will give an insight to their social behavior. An elephant is the largest mammal ...read more

by Rosalie Brown

African elephants, also known as Loxondonta africana, live in herds that are led by the matriarch, usually the eldest female of the family group. Herds will walk up to 30 miles in one day in search of food or water. Young...read more

by Denise Difalco

Elephants complex social behavior is evidence in their extensive communication network and in their bond groups or herd. They develop close ties to those in the group much like we humans do. Each elephant has it's ow...read more

by Shelly Mcrae

Elephants have long roamed the earth, as mastodon, as wooly mammoth, hunted by man, praised by man, servant to man. The long memory of the elephant stretches far back into time, farther than that of man's. The centuri...read more