Habitats for Asian elephants have decreased by more than 64% across the continent, equating to about 3.3 million square kilometers -- more than 850 million acres -- since the year 1700, according ...

An icon in Vietnamese culture, the Asian elephant is rarely spotted in that part of the world anymore. Since 1990, the elephant population in the country has plunged from 1,500 to 2,000 ...

Asian elephants have an estimated population of about 50,000. Over 60% of the population is found in India.Only four other ...

Asian elephants have long been described as forest “cleaners” by the Orang Asli people of Peninsular Malaysia who have lived alongside the giant mammals for tens of thousands of years.

The eventual goal is to repopulate parts of the Arctic with the new woolly mammoth—dubbed a “functional mammoth,” this creature may effectively be an Asian elephant with a new type of hair ...

A young woman was killed by an Asian elephant at a sanctuary in Thailand on Friday during a bathing session gone wrong, according to officials. Spanish citizen Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, was ...

When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...

Credit: Oregon Zoo/Cover Images After more than 20 months of pregnancy, Rose-Tu, a 30-year-old Asian elephant at the Oregon Zoo, gave birth to a beautiful calf on 1 February 2025. Staff are ...

The group wants Lucky to be sent to a world-renowned elephant sanctuary in Tennessee, at its expense. Zoo officials say they have no intentions of giving up Lucky, who at 57 is equivalent in age to a ...

Jet, a male Asian elephant calf born at the St. Louis Zoo on Nov. 23, 2024, sticks close to his mother, Jade, the zoo's 17-year-old Asian elephant. Nicole Brown via St. Louis Zoo ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute community is mourning the loss of Kamala, beloved member of its Asian elephant herd and ambassador for her species. After a decade of ...

Brazos, a two-year-old Asian elephant at the Fort Worth Zoo, recently received two doses of a vaccine against elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV), the zoo announced Thursday.(Fort Worth ...