• During courtship, a male and a female elephant will rub their bodies on each other and even wrap trunks. The females tend to run away from the males and he will have to pursue her. This game of cat ...

It is no small feat to artificially impregnate an elephant. The basics of artificial insemination may be routine, but a glance into the elephant house at the Woodland Park Zoo yesterday evening should ...

Asian elephant Nhi Linh (foreground) is pregnant and due to give birth between mid-January and early March 2026 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Male Spike ...

While many people are fascinated by nonhuman animals, most do not have the time, money, or opportunity to travel to remote natural habitats where these animals live freely. Instead, zoos relocate ...

Elephants possess a suite of unique physiological traits and reproductive adaptations that are key to their survival and ecological success. Their complex endocrine systems govern behaviours such as ...

Back in 2018, Miami welcomed a unique new resident: a 7-year-old Asian elephant named Ongard. The first male elephant born in Australia’s Melbourne Zoo, Ongard arrived in South Florida on a chartered ...

Woodland Park isn't giving up hope of someday having a new baby elephant, even after Chai suffered a miscarriage Thursday during the first trimester of her pregnancy. The 29-year-old Asian elephant ...