As a newborn, Jet the elephant tipped the scales at 262 pounds! Since then, he's hit milestone after milestone and today ...

Vantara, India's wildlife rescue, care, and conservation initiative founded by Anant Ambani, in collaboration with Project Elephant, Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, is ...

LAMPANG, (IANS) – Fifteen mahouts and cavadis (assistants) from Tamil Nadu commenced a week-long training program on June 17 at the Thai Elephant Conservation Center (TECC) in Thailand here. This ...

SAN DIEGO — For a hundred years, the accepted way to manage elephants in zoos was through close contact and dominance, including whacking the mammoth mammals with sticks or ax handles when they were ...

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OAKLAND — At 5:22 a.m. on Aug. 30, Colleen Kinzley, the elephant keeper at the Oakland Zoo, noticed the water. When a pregnant 8,000-pound African elephant’s water breaks, there tends to be a lot of ...

HILLSBORO -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the world's largest animal rights organization, on Monday asked the city council to ban the use of training devices that inflict pain on ...

If you'd like to be a docent at the Piedras Blancas Elephant Seal Viewing Area in San Simeon, training is starting soon. The organization, Friends of the Elephant Seal, is recruiting new guides to ...

This unit focuses on the anchoring phenomenon of the decline of elephant populations across Africa. Throughout the unit, students consider the importance of elephants to the ecosystem and also ...