As a cultural outsider, Matthieu Branders, director of the Belgian Office in Taipei, has noticed that the Taiwanese approach ...

Gods and goddesses exist not just as powerful, abstract entities but as characters with emotions, principles, and rules.

The real story, I think, is that BEE has operated like a great big elephant in the room that has made a lot ... communities may be defined by links of culture, language and religion, which stand to ...

It was well past midnight, and we were all sleeping. I woke up to some noise and saw the trunk of an elephant entering my hut through a gaping hole the elephant had made in the mud wall.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement is investigating a stabbing attack on an elephant seal pup that occurred on the beach at Neskowin, Oregon. The incident took place in a ...

Reiko Ohnuma, a scholar of South Asian Buddhism, argues that Maya is remembered in Buddhist tradition as an idealized, if ...

The U.S. Air Force deployed a swarm of supersonic stealth strike fighters and anti-aircraft missile systems for a large-scale “elephant walk” in Japan, in an apparent display of combat power ...

Doddabetta Peak, a popular tourist attraction in the Nilgiris has been closed for tourists on Tuesday (May 6, 2025) and the forest department is continuing to monitor a wild elephant that made its ...

Indu, a 59-year-old Asian elephant, passed away on Thursday morning, zoo officials announced, surrounded by her dedicated care team. The zoo said veterinarians and keepers saw Indu’s health ...

I have been slowly going blind over the last 10 years. My sister Arlene, who is also now legally blind, bought me a T-shirt that proclaims: “I CAN SEE, BUT I CAN’T SEE.“ Underneath ...

Indu arrived at the Phoenix Zoo in 1998. “Indu was a truly remarkable elephant who touched the hearts of everyone who had the privilege to know her,” says Bert Castro, President and CEO of the ...