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C’sar, the North Carolina Zoo’s longest-tenured resident and the oldest African bull elephant in the United States, died Dec.

After he was orphaned in Kenya, C’sar arrived at the North Carolina Zoo in July of 1978 when he was 4 years old. He was the ...

C'sar was also the oldest African bull elephant in the United States. The NC Zoo said he died peacefully on Friday. He was 51 ...

WACO, Texas — Cameron Park Zoo is mourning the loss of two beloved animals, African elephant Tembo and Sumatran tiger Maharani, who died Thursday, leaving zoo staff and volunteers heartbroken. Tembo, ...

Lady Bird, an Asian elephant born in August 2025, (center) is with her mother Bluebonnet (left) and Angel at Fort Worth Zoo on Dec. 9, 2025, in Fort Worth. Chitose Suzuki / Staff Photographer On a ...

A Washington, D.C.–based animal-rights group has filed a lawsuit in Somerset County seeking to secure the liberty of two Pittsburgh Zoo elephants. The elephants were recently moved to an international ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project has filed a lawsuit against the Pittsburgh Zoo, challenging the transfer of elephants Victoria and Zuri to an international conservation center. The Nonhuman Rights Project ...

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 ...

POWELL, Ohio (WCMH) — A baby elephant born in October at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium finally has a name. The zoo announced on social media that the adorable calf has received his official moniker, ...