The ethogram has taken on added urgency with the recent International Union for Conservation of Nature listing of African savanna and forest elephants as separate and endangered species.

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 ...

The Elephant Ethogram currently includes more than 500 behaviors depicted through nearly 3,000 annotated videos, photographs and audio files. The entries encompass the majority, if not all ...

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 ...