Shanghai Wild Animal Park has stepped up its monitoring and care measures after a viral video appeared to show one African ...

I woke up in the research tower to a soft exhale and then a trickle of water at the waterhole below. The full moon hung low and dim in the west. I squinted at my watch. It was 4 A.M. I wondered ...

Missy, a 53-year-old African elephant, uses her trunk to pick up snacks at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2022. Elephants have as many as 100,000 muscles in their trunk, giving them ...

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 ...

While both male and female elephants can have tusks, you can expect African elephants to have more impressive tasks than Asian elephants. Another obvious difference between these two creatures is ...

The young elephant calf weighs about 120 kg (265 lbs) in African elephants. It can walk from its first day, allowing it to follow the herd during its nomadic life. Nursing lasts between three and ...

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.