Elephant society is built on lifelong bonds, shifting alliances, and shared histories. Explore the network of relationships, life journeys, personalities, and cultures that shape their complex social world.
Elephants are renowned for their intelligence, memory, and emotional depth. Learn more about the cognitive abilities that allow elephants to navigate complex relationships, solve problems, and thrive in a changing world.
From Joyce’s pioneering work with elephants and her earliest field studies to the present day, our timeline highlights our key discoveries, milestones, and conservation efforts that have helped protect elephants and shaped our understanding of their society, cognition, and communication.
Elephants are the last surviving members of a once-diverse lineage, now reduced to just three endangered species living in fragments of their former range. This section explores the threats they face - ivory poaching, trophy hunting, habitat loss, climate change, human-elephant conflict, capture for captivity - and our conservation ethos guided by science and decades of research.
For more than half a century, ElephantVoices has studied wild elephants as individuals, following their lives across generations. Learn why long-term fieldwork matters, how we identify elephants, and how detailed observation, photography, and acoustic recording help us turn data into knowledge and protection.
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Esau's Origin
To understand Esau, you have to start long before he was a super tusker, before the collar, before the film crews. You have to begin with the EB family of Amboseli National Park.
New Scientist: Do you speak elephant? With this new dictionary you will
An ambitious directory of elephant behaviours and vocalisations offers amazing insights into their minds and culture - and could help save these magnificent beasts from extinction.
When Elephants Mourn
There are many stories about how elephants respond to death. In her years among them, Joyce has witnessed much that has moved her — but it is Tonie’s heartbreaking vigil that has remained with her, lingering longer than all the rest.
The largest video and audio library of elephant behaviors.