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LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — Two tourists in Zambia were killed by an elephant Thursday while on a walking safari in a national park, police said.
She’s no spring elephant. An elderly elephant in upstate New York was knocked to the ground and bullied by one of its pen mates — with crews forced to use a crane to get the senior citizen out ...
Ghost elephants are “refugees in their own homelands, moving in secret between small patches of habitat,” the Elephant Crisis Fund explains in a report.
A wild elephant wandered into a grocery store in northeastern Thailand and went straight to the snack counter, scarfing $25 worth of sweets.
There’s something about a piano. As Anoushka Lucas says at the beginning of this mesmeric, challenging monologue, when you hit a note, it makes the air vibrate. “We’re all vibrating together,” she ...
Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated how to calculate pregnancy duration. It has since been updated. If you think there's a chance you might be pregnant, you ...
Lucy the Elephant in Margate City, New Jersey was named the best roadside attraction in the USA TODAY 10Best Readers' Choice Awards.
Last fall, the Saint Louis Zoo welcomed a newborn Asian elephant calf to its family of pachyderms, the first fourth-generation member of the family.
The Sedgwick County Zoo’s excitement about five elephant pregnancies has been dimmed as one of the pregnancies has ended in a stillbirth.
WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Sedgwick County Zoo announced Monday that 29-year-old African elephant Simunye delivered a stillborn calf following a healthy, full-term pregnancy. This would have ...
In low-risk pregnancies, does fetal growth (second trimester fetal size) determine pregnancy duration? Do slower growing fetuses cause longer pregnancies? How does ultrasound dating compare to LMP?
It is Rose-Tu’s third pregnancy, the last time she gave birth was in 2012 after 21 months. Zoo visitors were shocked to learn that elephant pregnancy can last up to 22 months.