An African elephant who lived in isolation for over two decades in a zoo in India died of a rare rodent-borne virus, an autopsy report revealed. Shankar, the 29-year-old elephant, is said to have died ...

The protected animal was found dead by a worker, Winarno, on late Monday, February 2, 2026. He first caught a whiff of a foul ...

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, ...

An African elephant who lived in isolation for over two decades in a zoo in India died of a rare rodent-borne virus, an autopsy report revealed. Shankar, the 29-year-old elephant, is said to have died ...