A little before 5:30 a.m. in August two years ago, workers at the Oakland Zoo began calling colleagues at home to hurry in. For more than a month, staff and volunteers had held a round-the-clock vigil ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Sedgwick County Zoo says one of its four pregnant elephants has given birth. The zoo says the boy is a healthy African elephant calf. This marks an exciting milestone for ...

South Africa’s largest city has begun family planning—for elephants. Johannesburg, home to thousands of the giant creatures, is organizing a birth control campaign to prevent overpopulation that could ...

Elephant babies are BIG babies! The average elephant baby is 200lbs at birth and 3 feet tall, growing to be 6-13 feet tall depending on what type of elephant they are. With babies that big is it even ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — The Sedgwick County Zoo has welcomed its fourth and final elephant calf. The zoo reports that the calf was born on Friday morning to its first-time mother, Zuberi. The mother ...

Three female elephants in Namtok Khlong Kaeo National Park in Trat were recently given a birth-control drug as part of efforts to manage the wild elephant population.