This is the dramatic moment elephant handlers grappled with an escaped bull in heat. The 30-year-old jumbo had broken free from its chains and wandered into a forest in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on ...

Tourists encountered an angry bull elephant while on safari in Pilanesberg National Park in South Africa; the animal picked up their truck and dropped it on the ground several times ...

The shop owner said Plai Biang Lek the wild elephant helped himself to about 9 bags of sweet rice crackers, a sandwich and some dried bananas before leaving with a bag of snacks in his trunk.

A 25-year old bull in musth "smells like a thousand male goats in a pen", says Rasmussen. "It's acrid and very penetrating - if you get some on your finger it won't wash off. It really is stinky." ...

Only Pilanesberg males (bull numbers not in bold) that entered musth are shown. The original elephant population was brought from Kruger in 1981 (13 juvenile males, 5 juvenile females), 1983 (13 ...

The bull is thought to have been in 'musth' - a period when it produces more testosterone than normal. ATTACK: Mr Gibson was tampled on by the elephant (Library picture) (Image: Getty ) ...

A conservationist has described the moment she was almost trampled by a huge bull elephant, as she slept under the stars. Saba Douglas-Hamilton, conservationist, filmmaker and TV presenter, grew ...

When a bull elephant and hippo meet in a watering hole, it's not always a peaceful coexistence. In the accompanying footage, captured by Scott Hyman in Botswana, South Africa, ...

The pink elephant calf isn't the only baby animal with an eye-catching appearance. On July 31, a spotless giraffe calf was born at Brights Zoo , a private, family-run facility in Limestone, Tennessee.

The Asian bull elephant was shot to death back in October 1975. ... Nobby, described as an 'especially troublesome male, was believed to be in a state called 'musth' at the time of the escape, ...