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 ...

Guinness World Record, though, still recognises the Asian elephant Lin Wang as the oldest at 86. Read more at ...

The Asian elephant is one of South Asia's most important cultural and religious symbols. ... Asian elephants are still killed for their ivory tusks, meat and skin. Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam lost ...

Jewel, a 61-year-old Asian elephant who was euthanized this week at the Los Angeles Zoo, is shown in 2020. ... and poachers hunt the endangered animals for their tusks. More to Read .

The African bush elephant is the largest and heaviest of all elephants, weighing up to 6,000 kg and reaching up to 4 m in height. It has large ears, a long trunk, and long and curved tusks.

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 ...

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 ...

Chhouk, a 15-year-old Asian elephant, is getting fitted for a new prosthetic after losing his leg in a poacher's snare as an infant. Watch Party Newsletter DIY projects to try Avoid inflammation ...

Rani, a female Asian elephant at the St. Louis Zoo, unexpectedly died after a dog running loose agitated her herd, zoo officials said. The 27-year-old mother of three died a week ago.

Asian elephant Sak Surin, gifted by the Thai Royal family and named Muthu Raja or pearly king in Sri Lanka, stands by a water pond at the national zoological garden in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday ...