The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, in Washington, D.C. has announced one of its elephants is pregnant, the first time a baby elephant will be born at the zoo in 25 years. The zoo says 12-year-old Nhi ...

Jeff Melvin and Larry Unrein traveled to Botswana for a canoe safari. Two tourists are speaking out after they managed to escape an angry elephant while on a canoe safari trip in Botswana, an incident ...

Two elderly female tourists in Zambia were killed by an elephant Thursday while on a walking safari in a national park, police said, a year after two American women were killed in separate elephant ...

Thailand's most revered animal — the wild Asian elephant — has now become one of the country's biggest problems. Decades of deforestation and overdevelopment of natural habitat is pushing wild ...

A herd of 100 life-size elephant sculptures, handcrafted by 200 Indigenous artisans from South India, made their Miami debut as part of “The Great Elephant Migration”—a global public art and ...

However, there's no need for concern. Round "googly eyes" are totally normal among infant pachyderms (Just look at Teddy when he was born in 2021). "Newborn elephants, like Kirby, are born with their ...

A 314-pound baby elephant is the newest addition to the Houston zoo. According to the zoo, Kirby was born on Friday afternoon, November 15. Her 34-year-old mother, Shanti, was in labor for 19 hours ...

Monarto Safari Park's newest arrival, Asian elephant Burma, has arrived in Adelaide after flying in from New Zealand. The 42-year-old pachyderm was transported from Adelaide Airport to the zoo with ...

The symbols tied to the Democratic and Republican parties have actually been around for more than 100 years Election season is here, and along with all those annoying commercials for the various ...

A herd of elephants has descended on New York, making their way down the cobblestone streets of the Meatpacking District in what’s being hailed as the largest outdoor public art installation in the ...

The last elephant in South Africa’s national zoo has been released back into the wild after 40 years of captivity. The elephant, named Charlie, was captured in 1984 from Zimbabwe’s Hwange national ...

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