SJ Kids is a weekly writing assignment for youths of all ages sponsored by the Statesman Journal. Each submission must include the student's full name, grade and school (or age and city if ...

The natural world is abuzz with the sound of animals communicating — crickets, birds, even grunting fish. But scientists learning to decode these sounds say the secret signals of African elephants — ...

Scientists say an Asian elephant at a South Korean zoo can imitate human speech, saying five Korean words that are readily understood by people who speak the language. The male elephant, named Koshik, ...

Elephants don’t purr so much as sing when they unleash low-frequency rumblings at friends and foes kilometers away. Too low for humans to hear, the infrasonic components of elephants’ calls have at ...

Elephants have been at the zoo in Milwaukee ever since there's been a zoo in Milwaukee. But you've never seen them like this. The folks at the Milwaukee County Zoo have been hard at work on the ...