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On February 2, the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute welcomed their newest addition: the first elephant calf born at the zoo in nearly 25 years. With fewer than 50,000 ...

Documentary filmmaker Penny Lane (“Hail Satan?,” “Our Nixon”) has set her latest documentary on the Bronx Zoo elephant, Happy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elephant playing in water. Photo by Stacey Martin on Unsplash When summer comes to an end, everyone tries to fit in a few last ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Agbaibor, a critically endangered forest elephant, is "the first case of elephant rescue in Nigeria," his caregivers say. One ...

The success of a program linking zoos across the US has created social media stars and generated a wave of interest in how to protect the endangered great apes in the wild. “It’s a girl!” Melissa ...

One Sunday morning in late November, Tunde Morakinyo received an unexpected and urgent phone call. “The baby elephant will be here in two hours,” said his ANI Foundation colleague Peter Abanyam, who ...

Reminiscent of elephants, but weighing less than 10 pounds? They're real, and they're nicknamed "chaos potatoes." These three rock hyrax pups — Russ, Spud and Jackie — were born this summer at the ...