Rob the Ranger captures a baby elephant experiencing its first swim in Mara waters.

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The Kenya Wildlife Service pledged to “strengthen prevention measures, improve early response and reduce the risk of future ...

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

Billionaire Larry Ellison comes to his son’s rescue, agreeing to personally guarantee over $40 billion to finance Paramount’s ...

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 ...

Disney is suing over Disney World’s 2025 property values. If your tax bill jumped too, here’s when court is worth it.

A woman was killed and three others, including her teenage son and daughter, were injured in attacks by a wild elephant in Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur district on Friday, a forest official said. In first ...

During the recent Ditwah cyclone, elephants were seen floating in treeless floodplains that were once their forest habitats.

A brand new elephant calf made his grand entrance into the world at the Columbus Zoo on October 21. This baby elephant was a big boy, and the zoo couldn’t wait to show him off. They shared the first ...

It might be appropriate to change the well-known expression 'memory of an elephant' to 'memory of an elephant seal', as researchers think these animals can remember rivals from at least a year prior.

In a press release, the sanctuary said Minnie had been displaying signs of weakness and decline in normal eating and drinking behaviors that were "consistent with progressive kidney failure." The ...