Researchers from Brown University have discovered elephants consume up to 137 different types of plant, and alter their diet based on the weather and their own preferences.
Researchers from Tel Aviv University have discovered a complete tusk of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) near Kibbutz Revadim in southern Israel.
An enormous 50-year-old elephant was pictured enjoying its twilight years as he peacefully roamed around the African wilderness, while a Maasai Warrior kept the gentle giant under supervision.
Remaining elephants are more likely to be tuskless, meaning their children were also born tuskless, according to the team from Princeton University in New Jersey.