According to the new research, the two major types of African elephants are about as genetically distinct from each other as the Asian elephant is from the extinct woolly mammoth. And that ...

Decades ago, some 4,000 elephants lived in Gorongosa, says Joyce Poole—an elephant behavior expert and National Geographic Explorer ... tuskedness—varies. Among Asian elephants, for example ...

But they are not familiar with the herd dynamics and the familial bonds that usually exist among wild Asian elephants. Nick Newby, a member of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Elephant ...

Scidmore had photographed Asian elephants being rounded up in Siam (now Thailand) to serve as work animals for the king. For the first set of elephant images published in National Geographic, in ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A genetic study of Asian elephants in northern Cambodia ... Flora conservation group collected samples from elephant dung in Cambodia's northern plains and extracted ...

WASHINGTON - An Asian elephant named Kamala had to be euthanized Friday, the Smithsonian National Zoo said over the weekend. Zoo officials say after a decade of managing and treating Kamala’s ...

Kamala, a longtime member of the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s Asian elephant herd, was euthanized Saturday in D.C. following years of struggling with osteoarthritis. Even while measures were ...

An Asian elephant that had lived at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo for 10 years and suffered from osteoarthritis was euthanized there Friday after her condition “had irreversibly declined ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Kamala, a beloved Asian elephant at the Smithsonian National Zoo, was humanely euthanized on Friday, according to officials from the Zoo. Her caretakers at theSmithsonian ...

On Nov. 1, the zoo’s elderly Asian elephant, Kamala, was euthanized. This comes after she was diagnosed with osteoarthritis and her physical condition had irreversibly declined. The zoo said ...