Smithsonian’s National Zoo is all abuzz with excitement because first-time elephant mom Nhi Linh is pregnant. With a window for birth from mid-January to early March, the calf could come any day now.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Linh Mai in the elephant enclosure at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington D.C. Swarna, an older female elephant, is ...

These gentle giants are not only powerful in size but also remarkable in mind. African elephants are highly intelligent, emotional, and social animals. They live in close family groups, care deeply ...

A tiny—well, 308-pound—addition has arrived at one of the nation’s most beloved zoos, and she already has a reputation for being sassy. A critically endangered Asian elephant calf named Linh Mai was ...

This is the moment a cute baby elephant celebrates the World Cup – by “playing football.” The male Asian elephant calf was delivered at Whipsnade Zoo, in Bedfordshire, on Monday (June 8), weighing ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo, in Washington, D.C., has announced one of its elephants is pregnant, the first time a baby elephant will be born at the zoo in 25 years. Subscribe to read this story ad ...

A newborn elephant calf has been filmed “playing football” just days after being born at a zoo in Hertfordshire, UK. The tiny elephant, born at Whipsnade Zoo, was captured kicking a red ball around ...

The Fort Worth Zoo's elephant dynasty just got a tiny heavyweight. On Friday, the zoo announced the birth of a female Asian elephant, the first such calf born there since 2013. The not-so-little ...

A female Asian elephant calf has been born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Washington, DC, the first in almost a quarter of a century. The baby, whose ...

A mother elephant recently gave birth to twins in Sri Lanka. And that’s much rarer than you’d think. Twenty-four-year-old Surangi, an elephant at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, gave birth to two ...