Drakes Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is temporarily closed to accommodate elephant seals that have set up camp for the breeding season. The annual ritual has brought at least 30 males to ...

• During courtship, a male and a female elephant will rub their bodies on each other and even wrap trunks. The females tend to run away from the males and he will have to pursue her. This game of cat ...

The third elephant born in 18 months at Taronga Sydney zoo has been named. THE NEWEST ELEPHANT MEMBER of Taronga Zoo – the first female born from the successful breeding program – has been named Tukta ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Mabu saunters across a grassy field and raises his long, gray trunk to wrangle food from a hole carved inside a large boulder, captivating the attention of a girl propped up on ...

It is no small feat to artificially impregnate an elephant. The basics of artificial insemination may be routine, but a glance into the elephant house at the Woodland Park Zoo yesterday evening should ...

African elephants range throughout the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa and the rainforests of Central and West Africa. The ...

ST. LOUIS — Raja the elephant has been one of the biggest attractions — literally and figuratively — at the St. Louis Zoo for decades. Now, he’s moving away. The zoo announced Thursday that the male ...

Hoping to bring a new baby elephant into the world, Woodland Park Zoo officials artificially inseminated Chai over the weekend, ignoring concerns by animal rights activists that another baby could ...

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...