Elephant Coverage

5 elephants pregnant at Kansas zoo

A Kansas zoo now has five elephants expecting babies.

A vehicle backfiring startled a circus elephant into a Montana street. She still performed Tuesday

The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath in Butte, Montana, leading the pachyderm to break through a fence and take a brief walk, stopping noontime traffic on the city's busiest street before being loaded back into a trailer.

By AMY BETH HANSON and BEATRICE DUPUY, Associated Press

Ivory poaching driving evolutionary change in elephants

Researchers say that years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to elephants that will never develop tusks.

Rare twin elephants born

A pair of twin elephants were born in Sri Lanka -- for this first time in nearly 80 years.

Viral wandering elephant herd seen foraging, resting under trees

A herd of 14 wild elephants, that had captured the public's imagination, was seen foraging for food and resting under trees this week in China's Yunnan province.

Heartwarming: Elephant reunited with herd after being separated

A male Asian elephant in China that had been separated from his roaming herd was anesthetized and returned to its nature reserve.

Weeeee! Baby elephant takes advantage of muddy hill

An adorable baby elephant enjoys a muddy hill slide at a rescue center in China.

Hungry elephant invades kitchen

A woman in Thailand never expected to see this beautiful animal in her kitchen.

Turkey zoo welcomes baby elephant

An elephant family welcomes third girl at a Turkey zoo.

Wandering elephant herd naps together

Drone footage released by Chinese state media shows a herd of elephants, including a young calf, taking a nap in the outskirts of a major city in southwest China.

Elephants on the loose: Migrating herd moves through Chinese province

The migrating herd of 15 wild elephants was still wondering near the central district of Kunming, capital city of southwest China's Yunnan Province by Saturday morning and all of them are in good condition, according to local firefighters.

Louie the elephant joins North Carolina Zoo's herd

The North Carolina Zoo has added another elephant to its herd. Louie, an 18-year-old African bull elephant, arrived on May 25. And he's settling in just fine in his new habitat, the zoo reports.

Sarah Lindenfeld Hall, Go Ask Mom editor

Precious: Baby elephant takes its first steps

Just days after its arrival, a newborn baby elephant walked for the first time in its enclosure.

Adorable: Baby elephant explores in Germany

Otto, a small elephant bull in Germany, is getting confident in the big wide world of his outside enclosure as his aunts and mother take him exploring, and his keepers say his reaction to seeing visitors for the first time amid the easing of pandemic restrictions was something to behold.

Baby elephant rescued from well in India

Forest officials in the rural area of southeastern India rescued an elephant calf yesterday from a narrow dug well.

Man arrested after taking 2-year-old into elephant exhibit at zoo

Video shows the elephant walking towards what appears to be the man and toddler near the fence at the San Diego Zoo.

Rare baby twin elephants born in Sri Lanka

This could be the first-ever sighting of twin baby elephants in Sri Lanka. Wildlife officials are doing DNA testing to confirm if the babies are twins.

More than 360 elephants die from mysterious causes in Botswana

More than 360 elephants have died in mysterious circumstances in Botswana in the past three months, according to local conservationists.

By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN

Elephants trying to save 3-year-old calf when they died

Six wild elephants fell over a treacherous waterfall in Thailand and died after one of the herd, a 3-year-old, was swept away by the river and the others tried to save it, national park officials said Sunday.

6 Elephants die after plunging over a waterfall in Thailand

Six wild elephants fell over a treacherous waterfall in Thailand and died after one of the herd, a 3-year-old, was swept away by the river and the others tried to save it, national park officials said Sunday.

Richard C. Paddock and Muktita Suhartono, New York Times

Elephant gets new prosthetic foot, transfers to new home

An emotional day for keepers of a 3-year-old elephant, which will be taken to a new home.

Elephants stuck in abandoned mining pool in Malaysia rescued

A small herd of elephants somehow slid into an abandoned mining pool in Malaysia and couldn't get out. Luckily, some forest rangers came to help.

Monday is World Elephant Day

In honor of World Elephant Day on Monday, here are five incredible facts you might not have known about elephants.

Baby elephant born via artificial insemination at Ohio zoo

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium announced Thursday the birth of a new baby elephant.

Jessica Patrick, WRAL digital journalist

Elephant caught in New York while taking midnight stroll

An elephant that was burned by napalm during the Vietnam War has been returned to an upstate New York animal sanctuary after taking a late-night stroll.