And you might be surprised to know that war elephants played a military support role as late as World War II! Read on to find out more. Asian elephants were the first elephant species to be tamed ...

Ancient Indian art, such as sculptures at the Channakeshava Temple in Karnataka, illustrates the use of war elephants as part of a fourfold army, known as chaturanga bala, which included infantry ...

An expert on Asian elephants is sounding the alarm about “elephant sanctuaries” after a tourist was killed while visiting one in Thailand. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, a law student at the ...