Zookeepers hope that Permai’s introduction to Monarto’s resident Asian Elephant Burma will result in a new herd for our state. Perth Zoo veterinarian Michael Lynch said it had been a very long ...

A tourist has died after being trampled by an elephant while visiting Kruger National Park in South Africa, officials say. The animal "charged and trampled" the victim on Saturday, according to a ...

Have you ever wondered what the world’s largest land animal might be? While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone ...

Rose-Tu, the zoo’s beloved Asian elephant, is 20 months pregnant, meaning the arrival of Portland’s first gray, trunked baby in more than a decade may not be so far away. But will it be a ...

A court has ruled that five elephants being held in a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their release, because they are not human. An animal rights group brought a lawsuit on ...

Elephants may have exceptional memories, but they can forget about being endowed with human rights. That's the finding of the Colorado Supreme Court, which unanimously ruled against an animal ...

NEW DELHI – A jumbo operation is moving 20 elephants across the breadth of India to the mammoth private zoo set up by the son of Asia’s richest man, adjoining a sprawling oil refinery.

On Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that five wild-born zoo elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo do not have a right to liberty. The lawsuit, filed by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP ...

The zoo argued moving the elephants and potentially placing them with new animals would be cruel at their age, possibly causing unnecessary stress. Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” ...

Five elephants at a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their release because they are not human, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday. The court said the decision "does not ...