From tens of thousands of hours of observation, scientists have compiled a detailed library of African elephant behavior. Joyce Poole, a foremost expert in elephant behavior, and her husband, Petter ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with researcher Joyce Poole about the release of her African Elephant Ethogram —the most comprehensive audiovisual library ever made of African elephant behavior. Here ...

When a male African savanna elephant folds his ears while simultaneously waving them, he’s ready for a fight. When a female folds her ears and accompanies the action with an ear flap, that means she’s ...

Elephant scientist Joyce Poole and her husband Petter Granli have been working on a huge online database called the Elephant Ethogram for the last five years. The Elephant Ethogram is a kind of like a ...

Joyce Poole was 6 years old and living in Malawi when her family drove north to see the wild African elephants of what is now Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. On spotting a majestic male elephant, ...