Elephants are among the largest mammals on Earth. They are loved by many for their intelligence and varied personalities.

Due to this fascination, elephants can be found everywhere in popular media, children’s books, and of course, zoos! Another reason they are so beloved is due to their extremely unique and exaggerated ...

How The Elephant Got Its Trunk. Season 7 Episode 4 | 11m 53s Video has Closed Captions ... which kept the length in the lower jaw but dropped the lower tusks, making it much more elephant-ish looking.

Elephant tusks are both a valuable tool and a potential liability for these gentle giants. The desire for ivory has made elephants popular targets for illegal poaching, and it can have a ...

An elephant’s trunk has eight major muscles on either side and 150,000 muscle bundles in all. It is so strong that it can push down trees and lift a whopping 700,000 pounds. Its got the moves ...

The article explains that a baby's tusks start to grow around 2 years of age. "Once the adult tusks emerge, they continue to grow throughout the elephant’s lifetime, at an astounding rate of 7 ...

When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...

Brutal image shows elephant with trunk and tusks cut off Jane Wharton. Published July 19, 2019 7:52am Updated July 19, 2019 8:09am Share this with. Comments. A mutilated elephant has ...

The Oregon Zoo now plans to more than double its elephant population in the next decade—from ... Tusk, But Verify The Oregon Zoo ... The Seattle Times reported Have Trunk Will Travel in 2008 ...

An elephant has attacked a couple in India, as a husband held their young son in his arms. The victims, Satya Dehuri, his wife Rashmita Dehuri, and their son Dinabandhu, had been walking to watch ...

A mutilated African elephant was killed for its tusks by ivory poachers and abandoned in northern Botswana, where poaching is rapidly on the rise following the lifting of a ban on hunting the animals.