Lewis had gourmet taste: Whenever the dry season browned grass in his Kenyan sanctuary, he'd abandon the other elephants and race 25 miles to the mountains -- to raid farmers' cornfields under cover ...

Monday on The PBS NewsHour, Jeffrey Brown visits baby elephants in Kenya orphaned by the illegal ivory trade. The African elephant population has been dwindling rapidly over the past decade as the ...

Elephants aren’t hard to spot in South Africa’s premier wildlife park these days, even during the lush rainy season when the grass grows high and the trees are dense with leaves. Huge cows and their ...

Though the third annual, sure-to-sell-out Zoo Brew doesn’t take over the Santa Barbara Zoo until June 2, the beasts are already buzzing with excitement. The Brewhouse’s Pete Johnson gets a “two trunk ...

Remember those new elephants at the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium? Forget the new part. They’ve been regulars for a year now. That’s cause for celebration. The six pachyderms stepped off the plane ...

BRIDGEPORT -- The elephants didn't care that it was raining. The skies overhead were gray and gloomy, and a steady drizzle fell over their backs as they walked through roughly three miles of city ...

Elephant sound: How low can you go? One of the surprising facts about elephants is that they can communicate both above and below ground. Now, scientists have figured out how to listen in on their ...

Driving through South Africa's Addo Elephant National Park, you first notice the pachyderms for which the reserve is named when you see foliage moving. A likely scenario: A herd is lunching on leaves ...

There were plenty of silver hairs and shining pates listening to Bob Shults on Friday morning as the conservative Texan gave an overview of the National Federation of Pachyderm Clubs. Shults, the ...