Saturday marked a momentous occasion at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida, where officials announced an African elephant calf was born at the park for the first time in seven years. The baby ...

African elephant numbers have declined by up to 90% over the last 50 years, reveals new research. Poaching and habitat loss ...

The Fresno Chaffee Zoo announced the name of its second African elephant calf, Davu, following a community vote that had over ...

Elephant calf Meru was born at Reid Park Zoo, 3400 E. Zoo Court, to African elephant Semba on March 8. She joins allomother Lungile and big sisters Nandi and Penzi. “I started off really ...

Unfortunately, both African and Asian elephant populations face significant ... social skills and physical abilities they’ll ...

African elephant calves and mothers have a close bond and stay physically close to each other for the first few years of a calf's life Young, orphaned elephants appear to benefit, physically and ...

Habitat loss and poaching have driven dramatic declines in African elephants, but it is challenging to measure their numbers ...

The Blade/Andy Morrison Buy This Image TaraGay Walsh, of Holland, Ohio, holds her daughter Rylee, 1, on Tuesday as they and daughter Cadence, 3, view African elephant Renee and her newborn calf at ...

The African elephant is the largest land mammal ... There’s nothing much cuter than watching an elephant calf learning, and failing to use the thousands of muscles in the trunk.

African elephants are a matriarchal species ... a task complicated by her half-sedated and very large calf still careening its two-ton bulk around. Once the sleeping elephant is on its side ...

At 55kg (121lb) the female calf is slightly smaller than ... Compared to their African counterparts, Asian elephants have smaller ears round and hunched backs. Meanwhile, visitors continue to ...