Drakes Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is temporarily closed to accommodate elephant seals that have set up camp for the breeding season. The annual ritual has brought at least 30 males to ...

The third elephant born in 18 months at Taronga Sydney zoo has been named. THE NEWEST ELEPHANT MEMBER of Taronga Zoo – the first female born from the successful breeding program – has been named Tukta ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Mabu saunters across a grassy field and raises his long, gray trunk to wrangle food from a hole carved inside a large boulder, captivating the attention of a girl propped up on ...

It is no small feat to artificially impregnate an elephant. The basics of artificial insemination may be routine, but a glance into the elephant house at the Woodland Park Zoo yesterday evening should ...

• During courtship, a male and a female elephant will rub their bodies on each other and even wrap trunks. The females tend to run away from the males and he will have to pursue her. This game of cat ...

ST. LOUIS — Raja the elephant has been one of the biggest attractions — literally and figuratively — at the St. Louis Zoo for decades. Now, he’s moving away. The zoo announced Thursday that the male ...

What is the African elephant? African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their ...

Hoping to bring a new baby elephant into the world, Woodland Park Zoo officials artificially inseminated Chai over the weekend, ignoring concerns by animal rights activists that another baby could ...

Born in the early hours of a chilly February morning and weighing 308 pounds, Linh Mai is the Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute's (NZCBI) first Asian elephant calf in ...

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FRESNO, Calif. - Mabu saunters across a grassy field and raises his long, gray trunk to wrangle food from a hole carved inside a large boulder, captivating the attention of a girl propped up on her ...