1 of 2 | Elephants feed at the Chaffee Zoo in Fresno, Cali. The zoo has made an effort to get the elephants to eat better and exercise, so that they can slim down and live longer.

Just like some people, elephants seem to prefer a rich palette of foods, research out this week suggests. Studying decades-old poop, researchers found that elephants tend to have diverse diets ...

Tess the Asian Elephant is being put on a strict diet and workout routine. — -- Rarely is it OK to tell an expectant mother to drop pounds before having a baby. However, a pregnant elephant ...

Laura Booth, Catherine Breen, Cricket Gullickson, Variations in Elephant (Loxodanta africana) Diet Along a Rainfall Gradient, Consilience, No. 13 (2015), pp. 327-334 ...

Baby Loxodonta africana playing; Credit: Shutterstock The eating experiences of the wild African elephant, Loxodonta africana, over several decades have been difficult to measure until isotopic ...

Two weeks after rains begin, an elephant family named "the Royals" usually switches to a grass diet to bulk up for pregnancy. But when they wandered off their African reserve, cattle grazed the ...

Elephants undergo rigorous training and special diet for Mysuru Dasara, preparing for the grand Vijayadashami procession.

Elephant Diet Choices Are Helping Fight Climate Change These giant herbivores prefer to eat from trees that don’t store much carbon, allowing high carbon storing trees to thrive, new research found.

DCF stated water melon and musk melon have been added to the menu to balance body heat in elephants. Over care given to ...

Using a relatively new form of genetic analysis, scientists have found that wild elephants will chow down on a rich palette of plants.