W hen elephants reunite with friends, they greet each other with ear flaps, rumbles and other deliberate sounds and gestures, ...

New research explores how African savannah elephants use vocalizations, gestures and secretions when they meet up with ...

Scientists have discovered the strange way that African elephants like to communicate with each other: by defecating. The new ...

Doma (male) and Kariba (female) greeting. Source: Vesta Eleuteri, used with permission. Like other species that live in multi-level societies, African savannah elephants regularly separate and ...

The study, published in Communications Biology, identified approximately 20 movements associated with elephant greetings.

As it happens, researchers are learning more about how the animals greet each other, and how relationships among the social ...

There are so many ways to say hello. People wave, bow, shake hands, hug, kiss, fist bump, say “hi” or any combo of these. But there’s one greeting from nature that we sure hope doesn’t ...

Their interactions appear more nuanced than once believed. How do elephants say hello? As it happens, researchers are learning more about how the animals greet each other, and how relationships ...

When elephants reunite with friends, they greet each other with ear flaps, rumbles and other deliberate sounds and gestures, new research shows. The study, which was published May 9 in the journal ...