The tag I had was a cow tag, and the warden said if I agreed to go after the problem bull ... That’s it for this week, so ...

The elephant Shanti, 34, gave birth to a 314-pound female baby named Kirby at 3 p.m., according to the Houston Zoo. Zoo ...

An endangered Asian elephant calf was born last week at the Houston Zoo. The Texas zoo said 34-year-old Asian elephant Shanti ...

A new study reveals alarming declines in African elephant populations, with savanna elephants down 70% and forest elephants down 90% since 1964. Poaching and habitat loss are the primary drivers ...

African elephants are Earth's largest land animals, remarkable mammals that are very intelligent and highly social. They also are in peril. Fresh evidence of this comes in a study that documents ...

African elephants are majestic creatures that have roamed the Earth for thousands of years. However, the past few decades have not been kind to these gentle giants. Recent findings revealed a drastic ...

The IUCN SSC African Elephant Specialist Group (AfESG) is a global network of over 95 technical experts dedicated to promoting long - term conservation of Africa’s two elephant species, the critically ...

Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

In Botswana, at the southern tip of Africa, there are about 130,000 elephants. In neighboring Zimbabwe, another 82,000. In Namibia, Zambia and South Africa there are, combined, another 60,000. That ...