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 ...

• During courtship, a male and a female elephant will rub their bodies on each other and even wrap trunks. The females tend to run away from the males and he will have to pursue her. This game of cat ...

Mabu saunters across a grassy field and raises his long, gray trunk to wrangle food from a hole carved inside a large boulder, captivating the attention of a girl propped up on her father’s shoulders.

The Northern Elephant Seal breeding season is underway. One of the largest mainland-breeding colonies is here in the Bay Area. State park officials say so far, more than 1,000 elephant seals have ...

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 ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — An elephant calf has been born at a California zoo that has embarked on an elephant breeding program. The Fresno Chaffee Zoo said African elephant Nolwazi gave birth early Friday ...

There have been calls for an end to the breeding of elephants in Irish Zoos after two of the animals died within a week of each other. On July 8, Dublin Zoo announced the death of an elephant Zinda ...