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Karachi's history of TB in elephants Four African elephants — captured very young in the wild in Tanzania — arrived in Karachi in 2009. Noor Jehan died in 2023 at the age of 17, and another ...
In a news release, the Zoo said African elephant Mikki (age 39) and Asian elephant Punch (age 55) were reunited at The ...
Two African elephants who were formerly housed at the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere have died over the holidays, their caretakers said. Rosie, who was 47-years-old, was euthanized on New Year's Eve ...
SEDGWICK COUNTY—The Sedgwick County Zoo is celebrating the birth of another elephant. In the early morning of Tuesday, June, ...
Arguably the most talked-about elephants in America right now, Billy and Tina, are in quarantine at the Tulsa Zoo and are ...
Normally, tusklessness would occur only in about 2 to 4 percent of female African elephants. Decades ago, some 4,000 elephants lived in Gorongosa, says Joyce Poole—an elephant behavior expert ...
Zimbabwe’s wildlife authority has announced plans to cull 50 elephants from the Save Valley Conservancy in the country’s ...
Elephant ears are unique. African elephants have large ears. Asian elephants have smaller ears. Ears help regulate body temperature. They also enhance ...
The last elephants at the Los Angeles Zoo have been quietly moved to a zoo in Oklahoma despite a lawsuit seeking to have them transferred to a sanctuary where they could live out their days with more ...
The ears of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) can grow up to 6.6 feet (2 meters) long and 4 feet (1.2 m) wide, while Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) have slightly smaller and rounder ears.