Elephant caregivers play an important role in their society by comforting and teaching babies when mom is occupied.

Pupy the elephant arrived at her new home in a sanctuary in Mato Grosso, Brazil, Friday from a zoo converted into an ecological park in Argentina’s capital, where she had spent 30 years in ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which ...

Two African elephants who were formerly housed at the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere have died over the holidays, their caretakers said. Rosie, who was 47-years-old, was euthanized on New Year's Eve ...

For more than a month, staff and volunteers had held a round-the-clock vigil watching a pregnant 24-year-old African elephant on a video monitor, and now they saw the time had come. The elephant ...