The term describes a bull elephant with tusks that weigh over 45 kilograms each. Tusks that size are so long that they scrape ...

Every year on December 10, advocates around the world observe International Animal Rights Day, a reminder that animals ...

After living briefly at a TV station in Mt. Pleasant, SC, in the 1950s, Susie Q the elephant worked in circuses across U.S.

The owner of one of Bali’s most popular elephant parks has hit back at animal cruelty claims, branding allegations made by ...

Female Asian elephant Bani was injured in a train collision at 9 months old. Over a year later, she's celebrating Christmas ...

C’sar the elephant, the N.C. Zoo’s longest-tenured and one of its most charismatic residents, has died. The park announced ...

In a year that has been filled with plenty of doom and gloom, our furry friends have been a constant source of comfort and entertainment.

RETETI ELEPHANT SANCTUARY, Kenya (AP) — We stood at the edge of a dusty corral baked by the equatorial sun and ringed by chest-high posts as thick as telephone poles. On some posts, workers had ...

FLUSH WITH SYSTEMIC ROT In Jajpur district, six blocks and one urban local body were worst affected by the diarrhoea outbreak ...

Newkirk’s message wasn’t just for Kim. It was also for her sister Khloé Kardashian, who similarly revealed on Instagram that ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...