A newborn elephant usually weighs in anywhere from 200-300 pounds and stands around three feet tall! As they grow up, they rapidly pack on the pounds and will end up weighing up to 15,000 pounds when ...

A baby elephant trapped alone in a muddy well in Tanzania cried out as it struggled to escape, and the clock was ticking before predators or exhaustion could take over.

Is there anything cuter than seeing a newborn baby? Their big eyes, tiny size, and wobbly legs as they walk toward their mama, at least if the newborn in question is a baby elephant. Like many other ...

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Nov. 24 (UPI) --The Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington announced Monday that Asian elephant Nhi Linh is pregnant, adding the zoo is "cautiously optimistic" its first elephant calf in 25 years ...

At 10:18 p.m. on Oct. 21, an assistant curator at the Columbus Zoo and Aquariaum's Asia Quest observed what looked like signs of active labor in pregnant Asian elphant Phoebe. "Could be nothing," the ...

In 2008, a two-year-old elephant in the Houston Zoo named Mac suddenly took ill. The usually playful and mischievous elephant toddler became sluggish, lost his appetite, and his head started swelling.