The 218-pound newborn, named Corra, is also the first second-generation calf to be born at the Orlando theme park Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

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 ...

Zoo Knoxville is home to some incredible animals from around the world, including some massive elephants. It was also the home of Little Diamond, the first African elephant born in captivity in the ...

Older elephants in East Africa will be most severely impacted by climate change, threatening the long-term survival of this vulnerable African mammal, according to a modelling study by Simon Nampindo ...

Saturday marked a momentous occasion at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida, where officials announced an African elephant calf was born at the park for the first time in seven years. The baby girl ...

The zoo opened a revamped and expanded multi-species African Adventure exhibit in 2015 to better accommodate elephants, lions and gazelles by giving them more space to roam. It's also been working ...