This is Episode Two of a four-part Fascination on really big birds. You can listen to Episode One here. Flora Lichtman (tape): For people who’ve never heard of an elephant bird, what do they need to ...

Babe, Zina and Sophie — or as their caretakers sometimes call them, Big Head, Tiny and Sluffy — make up the elephant trio at the Little Rock Zoo. All of the girls are geriatric Asian elephants, and ...

The big elephant is very big and very lonely. Its loneliness is weighed in tons; its bigness is weighed in loneliness. Kaavan is his name, and he was the only Asian elephant in all of Pakistan until ...