The United States instituted a near-total ban on commercial trade in African elephant ivory in July, but the ivory trade continues to flourish in many Asian countries. Ivory is used to make ...

But Rome’s enemies, particularly various Hellenistic kingdoms and the Carthaginians, did indeed use war elephants. So, how did they acquire and deploy them in battle – and how did the Romans ...

According to Polybius, a Greek historian who wrote of the battle roughly 70 years after the event (147 BCE) in his Histories, Ptolemy was in possession of 73 elephants, Antiochus 102.Crucially ...

For thousands of years, “war elephants” were used in combat and logistics across Asia, North Africa, and Europe. These highly intelligent creatures required specialized training and a dedicated ...

Elephants use their trunk for everything ... His name was Lin Wang, and he was drafted into the Japanese army during World War II. They "hug" their trunks to say hello to each other.

In 280 B.C., the Romans first encountered war elephants, brought to Italy by Greek ... and long-range acoustic devices, first used by U.S. forces in Iraq in 2004 and later by police against ...