• During courtship, a male and a female elephant will rub their bodies on each other and even wrap trunks. The females tend to run away from the males and he will have to pursue her. This game of cat ...

Asian elephant Nhi Linh (foreground) is pregnant and due to give birth between mid-January and early March 2026 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Male Spike ...

FRESNO, Calif. — An elephant calf has been born at a California zoo that has embarked on an elephant breeding program. The Fresno Chaffee Zoo said African elephant Nolwazi gave birth early Friday and ...

While many people are fascinated by nonhuman animals, most do not have the time, money, or opportunity to travel to remote natural habitats where these animals live freely. Instead, zoos relocate ...

Elephants possess a suite of unique physiological traits and reproductive adaptations that are key to their survival and ecological success. Their complex endocrine systems govern behaviours such as ...