Elephant Mangalam receives a gentle foot massage at Arulmigu Adi Kumbeswarar Temple in Tamil Nadu.

The front feet of an elephant. The bottom legs and feet are light gray and very wrinkly. Semi-circle shaped (with the arch at the top) white toenails are visible on the front of the elephant's feet.© ...

Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell has been a regular at the same watering hole for more than 25 years. Most of the other patrons are elephants. This summer marks the Stanford researcher’s 26th visit to ...

Even elephants need to pay attention to grooming now and then. That?s why Dolly and Anna, the African elephants at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, received pedicures last week. The zoo?s elephant team ...

You might think that elephants get all the hearing they need with their big ears. But it turns out the colossal mammals also use their feet. Sound travels through the air and different surfaces as ...