We're having a baby! Everyone is thrilled to hear that the National Zoo will soon have a new little elephant for the first ...

Elephants learn to imitate sounds that are not typical of their species, the first known example after humans of vocal learning in a non-primate terrestrial mammal. The discovery, reported in today's ...

For the first time in more than two decades, an elephant at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ...

A few days before, the same calf had been caught in a buffalo trap not far from the settlement. Read more at straitstimes.com ...

Many key differences separate African elephant from Asian elephants. Not only are they found in completely separate parts of the world, but they live in different habitats as well. The African ...

There are three types of elephants: the African forest elephant, the Asian elephant, and the African savanna (or bush) elephant. Elephants in the African savanna are larger than those in the African ...

Two new female Asian elephants, 19-year-old Trong Nhi (trong-nEE) and her daughter, 9-year-old Nhi Linh (nEE-lin), are now on public view at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology ...

Asian elephants are being forced out of their forest homes by logging, agricultural clearance and ill-planned development schemes. Mass movements of people and resettlement programmes have led to ...

After exhibiting signs of kidney failure, the sanctuary said the former circus elephant was humanely euthanized on Sunday, ...

A woman in Thailand found an unexpected visitor in her house in the middle of the night last weekend – a wild Asian elephant. “We were sleeping and woke up by a sound inside our kitchen,” said ...

Manas National Park in Baksa, India. As forests shrink and conflicts rise, conservationists race to protect the last 50,000 of the species Populations have declined by more than 50% in the past three ...

These elephants at the Oklahoma City Zoo were among those that were part of a research project exploring their cognitive abilities. (Lisa Barrett Photo) Elephants are known for their complex cognitive ...