elephants

An elephant gave birth to twins for the first time since 1941 at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka.

An elephant gave birth to twins for the first time since 1941 at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka.

A famous elephant herd wandering in Southwestern China is finally heading home.

Local authorities have deployed trucks, workers and drones to monitor the elephants, evacuated roads for them to pass safely and used food to steer them away from populated areas.

A herd of elephants in China has become famous after entering and leaving a provincial capital city.

The 15 elephants have attracted global attention with millions of people watching surveillance footage of the elephant’s adventure.

A herd of elephants nap together and graze in southwest China.

Elephants in a wandering herd in southwest China have walked down paved roads and poked their trunks through windows as they near a city and authorities have rushed to protect the animals and people

A wandering herd of elephants entered a rural Chinese suburb on Wednesday, destroying more than $1 million in crops. Authorities urged people to remain indoors and are unsure why the herd strayed from a nature reserve.

Cher’s rescue of an elephant held in dismal conditions is told in a new documentary.”

Increasing threats of poaching and loss of habitat have made Africa’s elephant populations more endangered, according to a report released Thursday by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Elephants at Reid Park Zoo in Tucson, Arizona, enjoyed snow flurries on Tuesday.

A Florida wildlife sanctuary is building a new 2,500-acre home for former circus elephants

An animal welfare group says that Kaavan the elephant, who has become a cause celebre for animal activists around the world, will be allowed to leave his Pakistani zoo and transferred to better conditions

A new study shows that teenage male elephants aren’t as anti-social as once thought

A spokesman for Zimbabwe’s national parks said the number of elephants dying in the country’s west from a suspected bacterial infection, possibly from eating poisonous plants, has risen to 22 and more deaths are expected

Botswana says it is investigating a staggeringly high number of elephant carcasses _ 275 _ found in the popular Okavango Delta area of the southern African nation in recent weeks