Source: Esin Üstün, via Flickr. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Decades of research have emphasized the importance of matriarchs in leading elephant herds. A herd, made up of related female ...

An elephant in South Africa’s Addo Elephant National Park has discovered that to access water protected by an electrified fence, one has to think like a leopard. The accompanying footage shows the ...