Both male and female African elephants grow big tusks, but only a few male Asian elephants grow full-size tusks. The rest of the males and females grow smaller tusks, called tushes. Elephants use ...

The big bull flaps his ears as the boat approaches ... crested cranes fly by – and remembering those mischievous teenage elephants snorkelling down the Nile.

Whether or not the endangered Asian elephants in the Ringling Bros. Circus will be afforded the protections outlined in the ESA is in the hands of Judge Sullivan, but regardless of the outcome—or the ...