In a move that has drawn global attention and stirred controversy, Zimbabwe has announced plans to cull dozens of elephants and distribute their meat to local communities. This decision comes amid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PHOTO: A group of elephants and giraffes walk near a carcass of an elephant at a watering hole inside Hwange National Park, in ...

In 1948, a group of amateurs led by a local headmaster in Lehringen, Germany, uncovered the skeleton of a straight-tusked elephant – the largest land mammal known to have roamed Europe – in ...

Botswana has faced criticism from animal rights activists after authorities authorised the killing of 23 elephants to provide meat for the country's 60th independence celebrations. The southern ...

Botswana is home to the world's largest elephant population, with more than 130,000 elephants (file photo) Animal rights activists have criticised Botswana's decision to authorise the killing of 23 ...

BANGKOK (AP) – A new taste for eating elephant meat _ everything from trunks to sex organs _ has emerged in Thailand and could pose a new threat to the survival of the species. Wildlife officials told ...

Markets in the Central African Republic offer all the jungle's delicacies, including monkey, chimpanzee, antelope and, if you have the cash, even elephant. Hunters kill the elephants and cut off the ...

This illustration gives an idea of how Neanderthals would have butchered an elephant: they used flint tools to break open the thick elephant skin and then remove the organs and meat. Hunting a male ...