The Smithsonian’s National Zoo welcomed a rare new addition on Monday, a female elephant calf, marking the zoo’s first elephant birth in more than 25 years.

• 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Northern Elephant Seal breeding season is underway. One of the largest mainland-breeding colonies is here in the Bay Area. State park officials say so far, more than 1,000 elephant seals have ...

Reports from animal welfare groups show that elephants in zoos often die decades earlier than those in the wild. The problem is not a single bad enclosure or one careless year.

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 ...

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