Female elephants become sexually mature at 10 to 12 years of age; males at about 15. The gestation period is 22 months and females produce offspring every 4 to 6 years.

I woke up in the research tower to a soft exhale and then a trickle of water at the waterhole below. The full moon hung low and dim in the west. I squinted at my watch. It was 4 A.M. I wondered ...

(KRON) — An elephant that’s spent two decades at Oakland Zoo will soon be reunited with other African elephants. The zoo announced Monday that “Osh,” a 30-year-old male elephant, will ...

Trophy hunter kills Botswana's biggest "tusker" elephant 04:35. An elephant in Kenya has given birth to a set of twins, a conservation group said on Friday, a rare event for the planet's largest ...

The 30-year-old African male elephant, ... Osh’s female mate, 44-year-old Donna, was brought to the sanctuary from Oakland in 2023, and the caretakers are hoping to reunite them soon.

Mabu joins two female African elephants, a 24-year-old named Nolwazi and her 9-year-old ... in the zoo’s 13-acre, naturalistic safari-scape. He replaces the zoo’s other male elephant, ...

Our findings suggest that male elephant society is much richer than previously thought. Recording elephants in Namibia Our study of elephant “let’s go” rumbles at Mushara waterhole started ...

The CEO says this is the first elephant calf born in the Zoo's 95-year history. The Zoo's other female African elephant is expected to give birth in the coming weeks. Report a correction or typo ...