Let’s examine the diet of each elephant species individually. What Do African Bush Elephants Eat? The African bush elephant, also commonly known as the African savannah elephant, is one of two ...

To get a better look at the elephant diet, the team relied on a relatively new form of genetic analysis called DNA “metabarcoding.” This technique allowed researchers to identify the traces of ...

Elephant Diet Choices Are Helping Fight Climate Change These giant herbivores prefer to eat from trees that don’t store much carbon, allowing high carbon storing trees to thrive, new research found.

In the same way you might hate to eat the same food for every meal, every day, elephants have been found to vary their diets from day to day. Researchers investigated the eating habits of ...

The elephant's pregnancy diet is identical to her normal diet: 2½ bales of hay a day, along with fruits, vegetables and grain supplements for added vitamins and minerals.

Asian elephants have long been described as forest “cleaners” by the Orang Asli people of Peninsular Malaysia who have lived alongside the giant mammals for tens of thousands of years.

This supplement diet, fed every morning and evening, makes up for it,” he says, adding that the feeding time also enriches the bonding between mahouts and elephants. He arrives at the diet chart ...

Elephants are creatures of habit, and they typically don’t show up here at the Mushara waterhole in Namibia’s Etosha National Park until at least 11 A.M. But the full moon does funny things to ...

The oldest elephants wandering Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park bear the indelible markings of the civil war that gripped the country for 15 years: Many are tuskless. They’re the lone ...