Some Kenyans have protested after roaming elephants killed four people over the past week in what experts describe as human–wildlife conflict driven by scarcity of vegetation NAIROBI, Kenya -- Some ...

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A high-speed passenger train plowed into a herd of elephants in northeastern India early Saturday, killing seven elephants and injuring a calf. The Rajdhani Express, which was carrying around 650 ...

A high-speed rail slammed into a herd of elephants, slaughtering seven and leaving one calf wounded in India Saturday. As many as 100 elephants were crossing the tracks when the train’s engineer ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A high-speed passenger train struck a herd of elephants in Assam state, killing seven and injuring a calf. Five ...

Seven wild Asiatic elephants were killed and a calf was injured when a high-speed passenger train collided with a herd crossing the tracks in India’s northeastern state of Assam early Saturday, local ...

Seven wild Asiatic elephants were killed and a calf was injured when a high-speed passenger train collided with a herd crossing the tracks in India's northeastern state of Assam early Saturday, local ...

No people were injured in the accident, despite a partial derailment. As elephant habitat shrinks, such deadly encounters are on the rise. By Pragati K.B. Reporting from Bengaluru, India A passenger ...

Elephant societies respond to death in ways that look uncannily similar to our own reactions. Here’s why it has researchers describing them as “compassionate.” Wildlife researchers have, for decades, ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

More than a dozen Bornean elephants have been killed — including five beheaded — in Malaysia in the past 18 months, the authorities say. More than a dozen Bornean elephants have been killed — ...