We’re impressed with this toy’s long-term appeal too – 1 of our baby testers lost her llama for a while to her much older sister… What is it: A 60cm x 21cm elephant cushion that comes trunk to tail ...
The forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of two living African elephant species, the other being the savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana). Historically, forest elephants thrived in the dense ...
African elephants are the largest mammals that live on land. There’s a lot of rumours that go round about these gentle giants though: that they never forget, that they grieve, and that their ...
Turns out, the beloved building brick brand Lego takes its name from a charming, simple phrase that’s often used in the toy’s home country of Denmark. Dating back to 1932, founder Ole Kirk ...
This story appears in the August 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The royalty of India—Hindu and Muslim—understood long ago that power was best wielded from the back of an elephant.
Elephants have long captured human imagination in art and culture, and scientists have long sought to understand them. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) study African ...
These are just a few of the things that my five young kids have played with and obsessed over—despite the avalanche of actual toys to choose from in our house. Kids will play with just about ...
For the past 17 months, a wandering herd of elephants in China has embarked on an adventure of mammoth proportions. Now, after straying hundreds of kilometres from their nature reserve ...
The elephants have tucked into villagers' crops on their long migration route More than 150,000 people have been evacuated from the path of a herd of migrating elephants, Chinese officials have said.