Two Asian elephants at the Columbus Zoo, Phoebe and Sunny, are pregnant and due soon. Their calves would build up Columbus' herd. But also, they're part of a national effort to increase the ...

Food: 150 to 200 pounds a day of oat hay, complemented by grass, banana plants, apples, carrots, loaves of wheat bread and palm fronds Waste: The 30 elephants generate one ton of manure a day. It’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visitors to the Fort Worth Zoo's Elephant Springs exhibit can now see the newest member of the herd — a male Asian elephant calf ...

Correction: A previous version of this news release incorrectly stated the square footage of the Elephant Trails exhibit. Altogether, it is 10,642.6 square meters (114,442.2 square feet). The ...

Jet is one of the first Asian elephant calves to receive the vaccine, which was developed by birologists at Baylor College of Medicine.

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 ...

Visitors to the Fort Worth Zoo’s Elephant Springs exhibit can now see the newest member of the herd - a male Asian elephant calf born April 1. Sam Houston, weighing 285 pounds and standing 3 feet tall ...