The Zoo cares for five female Asian elephants from a few different family groups. Luckily, there are a few things that keepers can do to encourage them to build positive relationships. Learn more ...

The trend is toward larger exhibit spaces and bigger breeding herds, which complement the ultimate elephant enrichment activity -- "babies, and caring for babies," said the Indianapolis Zoo's ...

Tennessee’s Elephant Sanctuary celebrates 30 years The sanctuary opened in 1995 and has cared for 34 elephants, with plans to bring in more this year.

To mark World Elephant Day, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History announced it will open “Elephants and Us: Considering Extinction” Oct. 4. This history exhibition, timed with the 30th ...

Given that elephants are the largest land mammals on the planet, one might expect that when it comes to enclosures for zoo elephants, size matters. However, a newly released study in which the ...

Elephant keepers will provide special enrichment in the morning, followed by a watermelon eating contest between some lucky guests and the elephants.

Buttonwood Park Zoo offers several enrichment programs for the animals from drumming to breaking ice bowls with a treat inside.

If you’ve ever watched an elephant eat and drink, you may think it’s a simple process. The largest land mammals in the world use their long trunks to pick up food — about 400 pounds a day ...

Once the enrichment devices are installed in the zoo’s elephant habitat, the UTSA students will study the impact of the devices and how the elephants interact with them. They will also collect data to ...

Elephant Trek, the zoo's biggest More Home to Roam project, will offer a 24-hour space for elephants that's five times the current habitat's size.

The young elephant was born on Jan. 20, 2022, and is the fourth calf of her kind to be born at the zoo. She belongs to a herd of multi-generational Asian elephants living at the zoo.