For a male that has grown up within a tight-knit elephant family, it’s a big social adjustment to live outside the family. He is not accustomed to isolation. Companionship is all he knows.

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.

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 ...

(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 ...

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.

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS — A female African elephant at the Indianapolis Zoo celebrated a big milestone on Labor Day: the birth of her first baby calf. The Indy Zoo announced Tuesday that first-time ...

B) Top view of the brain of a 35-y-old African female elephant, Indra. C) Top view of the brain of an ∼28-y-old feral African male elephant; aging was performed according to tooth abrasion patterns.