Asian Elephants Are the Largest Mammal of Their Respective Continent Adult Asian elephants weigh between 6,000 to 12,000 pounds, making them smaller than their African counterparts.

Most experts recognize three species of elephants: two from Africa and the Asian elephant. But which one is the biggest of the three? And just how big is the world’s largest ever recorded ...

In a study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, researchers from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the ...

Discover interesting facts about elephants, the highly intelligent and social animals that roam Africa and Asia.

The two young male Asian elephants play in the pool at The Harry and Linda Fath Elephant Trek at the Cincinnati Zoo & ...

African elephants are the largest land animals on earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...

The largest living land animal in Asia, the elephants are also threatened by poaching, animal trafficking, deadly endotheliotropic herpesvirus, and human-elephant conflict.

African elephants are the largest land animals on Earth and significantly larger than their relatives in Asia, from which they are separated by millions of years of evolution. Nevertheless, Asian ...

With more than 500 elephants and 49 parks, it has the biggest concentration of elephants catering to tourists in Thailand, according to the National Elephant Institute.

In a first for the Columbus Zoo, two elephants are pregnant. The babies will build up the herd but also further the species' sustainability nationally.

The Asian elephant can be found from western India to eastern Borneo in Southeast Asia. A total of three recognized Asian elephant subspecies exist: the indicus, found across mainland Asia, the ...

The largest living land animal in Asia, the elephants are also threatened by poaching, animal trafficking, deadly endotheliotropic herpesvirus, and human-elephant conflict.