Though the green season in northern Botswana means having to deal with tall grass and fewer waterhole sightings, it also means all manner of baby animals are being born. Cue cuteness overload.

UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences' Shermin de Silva has spent the majority of her scientific career studying ...

AND HELPED FAMILIES MAKE SOME WONDERFUL MEMORIES HERE AT THE ZOO, AND TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT AFRICAN AND ASIAN ELEPHANTS. PUNCH IS AN ASIAN ELEPHANT. MICKEY IS AN AFRICAN ELEPHANT. PUNCH IS ALMOST 55.

The bulls are the first elephant babies in the zoo’s more-than-50-year history. On Tuesday, the baby African elephants Kijani and Bomani made their first public appearance at the Sedgwick County ...

In 1879, as Leopold was beginning his exploitation of Congo, he lit upon the idea of using elephants as pack animals to abet the forthcoming mass extraction. But not local African elephants — at ...

Dr. de Silva recently published "Elephants: Behavior and Conservation," a book compiling more than 20 years of research on African and Asian ... as though in a giant museum. Nature is ever ...

When a 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook the U.S. city of San Diego on April 14, a video showing five African elephants huddling together in the middle of their enclosure at San Diego Zoo Safari Park ...

After years of debate over the welfare of the animals, the Los Angeles Zoo announced Tuesday that it will relocate its two remaining Asian elephants to a newly expanded preserve at the Tulsa Zoo.