Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There are roughly 3,800 captive elephants in Thailand. nong2/Getty Images In Thailand, it’s very easy to encounter an elephant.

Separated from their mothers, jabbed with metal hooks, and sometimes deprived of food -- many Thai elephants are tamed by force before being sold to lucrative tourism sites increasingly advertised as ...

Meet the real life Tarzan – who has spent five years living in the jungle without contact with many people – tracking elephants. The 26-year-old German wildlife expert, named Mika Etowski, set up in ...

Thailand is using a birth control vaccine on elephants in the wild to try and curb a growing problem where human and animal populations encroach on each other. It's an issue in areas where farms ...

If you ever get an opportunity to go to Thailand, chances are you'll come home with a souvenir with the country's national animal on it…the Asian elephant. Elephants are more than a point of pride in ...

CHIANG MAI, Thailand (AP) Guests volunteering at the Elephant Nature Park don't have phone service or television, and Internet access is limited to a single area. But what they get instead of TV is ...

In a bid to prevent human confrontations, which can turn deadly, Thailand is administering birth control vaccines to wild elephants. Thailand is using a birth control vaccine on elephants in the wild ...