Elephants are creatures of habit, and they typically don’t show up here at the Mushara waterhole in Namibia’s Etosha National Park until at least 11 A.M. But the full moon does funny things to ...

Male elephants have a reputation as loners ... And in two instances in South Africa, when older bulls had been reintroduced to a territory, younger bulls had then cycled out of musth.

Between 2010 and 2012, ivory hunters shot down an astonishing 100,000 elephants across Africa—more than 60 percent ... met the Séléka commander in front of his men. They proffered manioc ...

Ndlula, Umngani and Khosi — scramble to encircle and shield the two 7-year-old calves, Zuli and Mkhaya, from any possible threats.

On Tuesday, the zoo announced the birth of another African elephant calf, just four days after the birth of Bomani on April 10. Kijani, a male calf, was born to Xolani on Monday, surrounded by ...