Initially, this elephant baby was called Kirk. However, a short while later, the zoo announced that they had made a mistake ...

Nandi the baby elephant started life with a spaghetti noodle of a nose, but her mom is teaching the calf that her trunk can be so much more Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...

Tula-Tu, the elephant calf born earlier this month, is undeniably cute. But she isn’t the first baby animal to cause visitors to Portland’s zoo to audibly say, “Awwwwww.” Here are 12 sweet ...

As this video shows, an entire herd of elephants will even face down a dangerous tiger to defend a baby elephant! Elephants are incredibly social animals, living and thriving in close-knit ...

At only 4 days old, the Oregon Zoo’s newest elephant calf is already Portland’s most famous, beloved resident of the year. Sure, Rose-Tu’s tiny, trunked baby may not have a name yet.

Are baby elephants, which weigh hundreds of pounds at birth, tiny enough to fit squarely within the bounds of a human palm? Common sense would say no — but Google's AI Overview, or the AI ...

The Oregon Zoo has been getting a lot of attention for its new baby elephant Tula-Tu. A ton of work goes into keeping the elephants at the zoo healthy and happy, but the zoo does so much more to ...

Experts say interest in the baby elephant could spell good news for her wild counterparts. “The more exposure people have,” said University of Michigan professor Stephanie Preston, quoted in a ...

Actually, that baby elephant was stressed. “This is not dancing, but stereotypical behavior," says Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan, a researcher on the behavioural ecology of Asian elephants. The so-called ...