A near-total ban on taking baby African elephants from the wild and selling them to zoos has been approved at a meeting in Geneva. Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered ...

Born Free said elephants are completely unsuited to being kept in zoos and the breeding serves no meaningful conservation ...

An adult African elephant's trunk is about seven ... Elephants are either left or right-handed Baby elephants are born not ...

a 3-month-old baby African elephant named Kijana. His mother had rejected him after giving birth, so the zookeepers embarked upon a difficult and expensive mission to raise him. When we first met ...

The group operates several sanctuaries, including this one in Baan Lao, Myanmar, where overnight temperatures recently fell to 0C - chilly even for a big baby. Save Elephant Foundation A park ...

The African elephant is the largest land mammal ... Almost immediately after birth a baby elephant must master life on four legs, but it takes much longer for its 5th limb to reach its full ...