If you’ve seen cartoon elephants before, you’ve likely noticed the stereotype that elephants fear mice. Given that they’re the largest land mammal on earth, it does seem unbelievable for elephants to ...

Pliny The Elder once wrote of elephants: "Of all other living creatures, they cannot abide a mouse or a rat." Elephants being ...

JOHANNESBURG — Lore has it that elephants are afraid of mice, but scientists have discovered that elephants are truly afraid of bees and that the pachyderms sound an alarm when they encounter them.

You would think that a mouse and an elephant would not get along, but in this story they do. Oh goodness I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s start at the beginning. Once up on a time an elephant, well ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...