• During courtship, a male and a female elephant will rub their bodies on each other and even wrap trunks. The females tend to run away from the males and he will have to pursue her. This game of cat ...

newborn elephant a peek behind the legal, biological, logistical and philosophical curtain of captive breeding. Those who follow zoo news, whether they're fans or foes, expressed worry and outrage ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Sabu, the beloved 10,000-pound bull elephant, has returned to the Cincinnati Zoo after spending two years away trying to produce offspring. The Asian elephant spent two years at ...

Elephants seem easy to figure out with their big bodies, long trunks, and always walking in slow groups. But they’re not simple animals. Behind the usual facts are habits, abilities, and instincts ...

It is no small feat to artificially impregnate an elephant. The basics of artificial insemination may be routine, but a glance into the elephant house at the Woodland Park Zoo yesterday evening should ...

Researchers at the University of Turku found that the presence of a maternal sister was positively and significantly associated with annual female reproduction in a population of working elephants in ...

• Elephants are the largest of all land animals in the world. • The life expectancy for female African elephants is approximately 40 years. The oldest known elephant lived to be 82. • The heaviest ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- The Louisville Zoo is responding after an animal right's group listed them as the fourth-worst zoo in the country for elephants. The group, "In Defense of Animals" said the ...

African forest elephants could be wiped out in the next 10 years. Numbers of this small elephant species that inhabits tropical forests fell by about 65 per cent across the Central African Republic ...

What is the African elephant? African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth. They are slightly larger than their Asian cousins and can be identified by their larger ears that look somewhat ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- A Montgomery Zoo veterinarian says the final necropsy reports show the deaths of a 23-year-old African elephant and her 1-month-old calf were not related to breeding elephants in ...