“She’s just cute always,” lead zookeeper Shelby Maerling said this time. Elephant calf Meru was born at Reid Park Zoo, 3400 E. Zoo Court, to African elephant Semba on March 8. She joins ...

Since she was merely a week old, Meru has been in love with water. The 6-month-old elephant plays with the hose, flops in the mud wallows and uses her trunk to suck water from the palms of her zoo ...

Elephants have long captured human imagination in art and culture, and scientists have long sought to understand them. Scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) study African ...

Over the years there have been many reports of human-wildlife conflicts, including baby elephants dying after being separated from their mothers, the death of people, the destruction of crop ...

The question isn’t whether other creatures share our concept of mortality; it’s whether any living being truly grasps what it ...

Chaimu the elephant returned to the Sheldrick Wildlife ... sharing her new joy with the people who raised her. We have named her baby — a perfect little bull — Chapa. As you can see, he ...

The zoo said plans were under way to prepare the enclosure for two new Asian elephants, including "baby proofing the surroundings". Mother and daughter Noorjahan and Esha are due to give birth ...

There’s a Sherlock Holmes tale in here somewhere: A clever observer could check wrinkles and whiskers on an elephant trunk to catch a left-trunker pachyderm perp masquerading as a righty ...

Bhubaneswar: Rescued elephant calves, aged below six months, will get a new home at Kumarakhunti in Chandaka wildlife sanctuary soon. Wildlife officials said five calves have been identified for ...

KOTA KINABALU - An elephant calf was reunited with its mother after falling into a ravine at an estate in Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia. According to Sabah Wildlife Department director Roland Nuin ...

At the sanctuary, they rescue baby elephants injured, orphaned, or abandoned. They keep the animals and release them back into the wild after a while. The activities at the sanctuary are ...

The news keeps getting more interesting the more I look into it. For instance, did you know baby elephants drink about 10 litres of milk a day after a two-year-long gestation? And yes, it turns ...