The little jumbo believed it could hide behind the narrow pole as it saw humans approaching, despite being significantly ...

As the Edmonton Valley Zoo’s most famous resident quietly shares her half-century birthday with Canada, the long-time zoo ...

The National Cowboy Museum hosts the 53rd Prix de West and the OKC Zoo welcomes Xerxes, its first male Asian elephant calf.

You may know a ton of fun facts about animals, but we bet you haven't heard these jaw-dropping truths Are you up on your fun facts about animals? For every extraordinary creature on the planet, there ...

Both Asian and African elephants face serious conservation challenges due to habitat loss, poaching and human-elephant conflicts. The Asian elephant is classified as Endangered by the ...

Surprising size differences Asian elephants tend to be smaller than their African counterparts. They have shorter ears, a single “trunk finger” instead of two, and most females don’t grow tusks. But ...

05/20/2025 12:35 Asian elephants have larger brains than their African relatives Jan Zwilling Wissenschaftskommunikation Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (IZW) im Forschungsverbund ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...

Nevertheless, Asian elephants have a 20 percent heavier brain, as scientists were able to demonstrate. They also showed that elephant brains triple in weight after birth.

Size and Weight Measurements The largest Asian elephant, the Indian elephant, is a massive animal weighing between 3,000 and 5,500 kilograms. On average, Asian male elephants are larger than females, ...