Botswana's elephant population has doubled in recent decades, creating chaos for many who live alongside them.

Protecting their remaining strongholds and minimizing human impacts on their food sources and breeding grounds will be ...

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): In a delightful story of expanding elephant families, E Keo, mother to Noel, stands at the centre of a pioneering breeding programme. Last June ...

Their job is to keep the peace amid a worsening and at times deadly conflict between humans and the world's largest land ...

BREEDING: The breeding strategies for forest and savannah elephants are assumed to be mostly the same. Reproductive rates for both species are considered one of the slowest and most energy-intensive.

Young northern elephant seals can be seen in and around the Bay Area. The animals can be easily observed in their natural ...

While the calf is a male, the other three Asian elephants at the zoo are female, meaning a new male will have to be brought in if the zoo wants to continue its breeding program. Doing so in ...

THE ELEPHANTS HAVE SOME COMPANY ... They're what we're calling our foundation breeding herd. We want to keep them wild because our goal is to breed and reintroduce on native lands." ...

though it’s likely he’ll eventually say goodbye to Portland in lieu of somewhere with more female elephants and opportunities to breed, said Steve Lefave, the zoo’s elephant curator.

Instead, the company wants to focus on elephant breeding at its Rapperswil headquarters outside Zurich, as part of a European programme. A statement on Tuesday said the decision was taken after ...