It's birthing and mating season for elephant seals at Point Reyes. Beach closures are in effect to help protect nursing pups. Point Reyes officials recently celebrated the area's first pup birth this ...

Drakes Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is temporarily closed to accommodate elephant seals that have set up camp for the breeding season. The annual ritual has brought at least 30 males to ...

The first pups of the season were born over the December 16-17 weekend. More will follow, over 5,000 in the Piedras Blancas rookery before the breeding season is over in mid-March. Bulls fight for ...

Friends of the Elephant Seal holds a contest every year to guess when the first bull will arrive for the breeding season. The prize is the satisfaction of guessing right and being praised by FES ...

The male elephant seals at Point Reyes National Seashore are large and in charge. While they visit Point Reyes beaches at various times throughout the year, the real action happens during mating and ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Sabu, the beloved 10,000-pound bull elephant, has returned to the Cincinnati Zoo after spending two years away trying to produce offspring. The Asian elephant spent two years at ...

ST. LOUIS — Raja the elephant has been one of the biggest attractions — literally and figuratively — at the St. Louis Zoo for decades. Now, he’s moving away. The zoo announced Thursday that the male ...

The Denver Zoo is sending its fifteen-year-old bull elephant, Chuck, to Houston in hopes of seeing him start a family and help his endangered species of Asian elephants. Fewer than 40,000 Asian ...

Hundreds of elephant seals lounged in the sunshine on a San Simeon beach on Thursday, occasionally rousing from their naps to toss sand on themselves or bark at passing tourists. Those who looked ...