The zoo said Semba, the facility’s African elephant matriarch, gave birth to a 265-pound calf around 3:31 a.m. Friday, March 8. Reid Park Zoo said the calf, whose sex has not yet been determined ...

I try to read just about everything that is written about these magnificent giants, and when I learned about cognitive psychologist Merrill Sapp’s new book Knowing Wonder: An Elephant Story ...

"Dida the matriarch died naturally of old age." In a region where elephants were once poached almost to extinction, an elephant living beyond the age of 50 years is a rare feat. "To us allowing an ...