The little jumbo believed it could hide behind the narrow pole as it saw humans approaching, despite being significantly ...

When the Houston Zoo recently introduced Kirby, its newborn Asian elephant, questions abounded online about the wide-eyed ...

When the Houston Zoo recently introduced Kirby, its newborn Asian elephant, questions abounded online about the wide-eyed baby elephant's seemingly stunned appearance. "Looks like it still ...

Shanti, a 34-year-old Asian elephant at the Houston Zoo, gave birth to a 314-pound female named Kirby on November 15, 2024, ... people were initially fascinated by her wide eyes.

When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...

"The way their eyes look at you, you get a sense of the real thing," Ganesh said. "The Great Elephant Migration," a herd of 100 life-sized statues of Asian elephants, will be making their debut in ...

Yet, Happy, a clearly smart and sentient elephant, has been caged at the Bronx Zoo for most of her 48 years and has remained largely isolated and lonely for more than a decade.

The world’s smallest elephant is in danger of dying out as numbers reach just 1,000 in the wild, but there's hope it can be saved. The conservation body, the IUCN, which compiles the 'red list ...

He had been watching an elephant documentary in 2017 that so moved him, he almost immediately bought a ticket to Laos, where much of the world's trafficked Asian elephants originate.

The world’s smallest elephant is in danger of dying out as numbers reach just 1,000 in the wild, but there's hope it can be saved. The conservation body, the IUCN, which compiles the 'red list ...