It won't be long before the emus at the Oakland Zoo start chomping corn dogs and staring in rapturous fascination at the poor, captive Homo sapiens. They're almost at that point now. At the zoo's ...

Oakland Zoo to close 35-year-old elephant exhibit this fall: ‘I applaud’ them, zoo association president says Osh, the last elephant in Oakland, will be reunited with Donna, who left the zoo ...

The Oakland Zoo in California closed its elephant exhibit last month. It's the latest of an estimated 40 zoos in the U.S. that have closed elephant exhibits since the 1990s.

The zoo estimates it will take about 40 hours to transport the 15,000-pound, 11-foot-2-inch-tall elephant to his new home about 60 miles southwest of Nashville later this year.

The Oakland Zoo’s last beloved elephant arrived at his new home in Tennessee over the weekend, marking the end of the zoo’s 75-year-long elephant program.

The Oakland Zoo is saying goodbye to the Bay Area’s last remaining African elephant. People of all ages visited the zoo to bid Osh a final farewell before he heads to a new, and some say, more ...

His exhibit mate, Donna, was moved to the same sanctuary last year. When Osh packs up his trunk, it will also mark the end for the zoo’s 75-year-old elephant exhibit.