How many days can a desert elephant go without water? I think the answer may surprise you! Take a brief journey to an African desert to learn more about the elephant, its crucial role in desert life, and its innate ability to find water...

Vivian, her friend, and her mom go to the local zoo. This documentary-style clip shows the many types of wild animals that live at the zoo. They saw lions, giraffes, tigers, a rhino, gorillas, and zebras. This would be a good...

Ever wonder where the ideas of land management and forestry came from? Welcome to ancient India! Travel back in time using a video, the fourth in the History of Science series. The narrator describes the relationship between science and...

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it gave the elephant a very useful nose! Listen to a retelling of Rudyard Kipling's "The Elephant's Child" that explains how the elephant's long nose came to be—and what a hungry crocodile had to do...

The Chicago Field Museum is home to some amazingly large creatures! The installment from a larger mammals playlist takes young biologists on a tour of the mammal curation labs. Experts explain the specimen collection in terms of their...

What is it? It's a song about animals! Listen and watch while the singer reads and displays the lyrics and hand-drawn animations for a bird, dog, cow, and elephant. 

Elephant family relationships are a lot like ours. They cooperate in child rearing, have social structure, and practice coming-of-age events. Supported by fabulous photography, an elephant biologist shares 20 years of study with the...

A video of an elaborate experiment to discover whether it is true that elephants are afraid of mice. (Length: 7 min. 35 sec.)

A series of videos about working with elephants in the field featuring a collection of scientists and conservationists concerned about elephant protection.

The narrative of an expedition to visit rare forest elephants in the Central African Republic. Great audio clips of elephants.

Elephants communicate through the air like we do, but also seismically through the ground. [2:14]

In this chat, Geoff discusses wildlife diseases and evolution and a particular species of elephants with Scientist, Jack Dumbacher. [24:44]

In this video segment from Nature, witness the joy an elephant family experiences when a new baby elephant is born. The newborn baby, Ebony, seemed to regard photographer and the documentary filmmaker as part of the family. One day Ebony...