India studied elephant emotions, personalities and mental distress over 2,000 years ago, centuries before modern animal psychology emerged

Ancient Indian scholars deeply studied elephant minds and emotions. Texts like Gajashastra and Hastyayurveda detailed ...
The Conversation

Elephant tourism often involves cruelty – here are steps toward more humane, animal‑friendly excursions

A tourist on National Elephant Day in Thailand. oneclearvision/Getty Images Suju Kali is a 50-year-old elephant in Nepal who has been carrying tourists for over 30 years. Like many elephants I ...
Psychology Today

Animals Are Not "Things": Happy the Elephant and Personhood

"Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood follows the battle to move Happy, a 50-year-old Asian elephant, from the Bronx Zoo to sanctuary… I hope that this groundbreaking graphic novel will ...
The Washington Post

Should you participate in elephant tourism? Here’s what experts say.

An elephant handler in Thailand is under investigation after a Spanish tourist was killed during a bathing activity at a venue advertised as an ethical sanctuary, an officer at the Tourism and Sports ...