Updated 01.04.2026
New photographs and video exclusive to National Geographic suggest that two dozen young elephants flown to China from Zimbabwe in July are being mistreated and are slipping into poor health, according to analysts who have examined the images.
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'A window into its soul': The rare elephant behaviour that reveals the depths of their emotions
Isabelle Gerretsen interviews Dr. Joyce Poole about elephant grief captured in harrowing images by award winning photographer, Frederico Veronesi, of a young female Desert elephant carrying a dead infant.
Elephants rumble in chorus, and their overlapping calls carry clues about what the group is doing
Excellent coverage of our work in Earth.com: Elephants often rumble in overlapping choruses, and machine learning shows those calls carry clues about what the group is doing.
Elephants imitate each other when they produce deep rumbling sounds
The New Scientist: African savannah elephants use a variety of calls to communicate, and now machine learning has shown that they tune their deepest sounds to match those of other nearby elephants.
The largest video and audio library of elephant behaviors.