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.

12.5 million men, women and children were enslaved and shipped off to the New World, a trade first built on the extraction of massive amounts of African gold. The tusks of 94,000 elephants from ...

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 ...