Zoo officials said the elephant, named Ruth, lost her footing after aggressive behavior from a fellow African elephant.

The sharp reduction of their population has a knock-on effect on the Congo Basin forest itself. This is because African ...

The 218-pound newborn, named Corra, is also the first second-generation calf to be born at the Orlando theme park Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

Ruth, a 43-year-old elephant residing at the Milwaukee County Zoo, made a sudden movement in reaction to "aggressive behavior ...

Brace yourself for epic baby animal cuteness at Walt Disney World. For her first time ever, an adorable new addition bounded onto the savanna at Disney’s Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World. At just ...

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Corra, a 2-month-old African elephant, skipped onto the savanna for the first time at Disney’s Animal Kingdom theme park on Thursday morning. Within that first hour, she scampered alongside mom ...

A study reveals that African elephants communicate using intentional gestures to ask for food, similar to ape communication.

There’s a new addition at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Bay Lake, Florida, and she weighs a whopping 218 pounds. An African elephant calf named Corra was recently born at the resort, making her the first ...

African elephants are known to recognize groups of humans, to test electric fences with their tusks to avoid injury, and (of course) can remember paths to resources passed down to them decades earlier ...

Saturday marked a momentous occasion at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida, where officials announced an African elephant calf was born at the park for the first time in seven years. The baby girl ...