An older female elephant at the Smithsonian National Zoo is raising the herd's newest addition – a 2-month-old calf – after the baby was rejected by her mother. The National Zoo confirmed the ...

There’s a new superstar in the making at the National Zoo: Linh Mai, an Asian elephant calf, was born Feb. 2. The smallest member of the zoo’s herd, which includes her parents, Spike and Nhi Linh, ...

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For the first time in nearly 25 years, the National Zoo is introducing a baby Asian elephant to the public. Linh Mai, who was born at the zoo in early February, at a weight of 308 pounds, has spent ...

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Film director Werner Herzog has always been drawn to the limits of human knowledge – to the places where science meets myth, where discovery shades into obsession. In Ghost Elephants, which premiered ...

Since her birth in early February, the calf has been growing and beginning to bond with her care team and herd. She will go on view in-person and online starting April 22 Carlyn Kranking | Associate ...

A baby elephant was born at Washington DC's Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute for the first time in nearly 25 years, and you'll soon get the opportunity to meet her. Linh ...

Swarna, an older female elephant, has been playing with and helping care for 2-month-old Linh Mai Maxine Wallace/The Washington Post via Getty A baby elephant at the Smithsonian's National Zoo has ...

Linh Mai weighed 308 pounds when she arrived. Her mother wanted nothing to do with her. And the team keeping her alive hasn’t stopped since. A critically endangered Asian elephant calf named Linh Mai ...