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

The last elephants at the Los Angeles Zoo have been quietly moved to a zoo in Oklahoma despite a lawsuit seeking to have them ...

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 ...

The 35-year-old African elephant was transported in a large iron crate with thick bars strapped to a truck, a mission for which she had been trained for several months. The truck was flanked by ...