Elephants are vital to ecosystems. Learn interesting facts and how WWF works to protect them across Africa and Asia.

Elephants seem easy to figure out with their big bodies, long trunks, and always walking in slow groups. But they’re not simple animals. Behind the usual facts are habits, abilities, and instincts ...

The new “Dumbo” live-action movie that opens March 29 is one of the most anticipated films of the spring and everybody’s talking about it. So here are some cool things to know about real elephants, as ...

• At birth, an elephant calf typically weighs 230 pounds and stands over 2 ½ feet tall. Baby elephants are nearly blind at birth and rely upon their trunks and their mothers to help them. • A newborn ...

Sunday is National Elephant Appreciation Day—a holiday observed every September 22—and what better way to celebrate these tough-skinned animals than listing 10 crazy facts about them? 1. The African ...

Happy World Elephant Day! In honor of today's special day, we wanted to bring you just a smattering of fun facts about these gorgeous and fascinating animals. Scroll through to read all 14 of them ...

The Topeka Zoo welcomed two new elephants to the capital city on Wednesday. Cora, 58, and Shannon, 34, join Tembo, 46, and Sunda 56, at the zoo. In honor of the event, here are some Topeka Zoo ...

• Elephants are the largest of all land animals in the world. • The life expectancy for female African elephants is approximately 40 years. The oldest known elephant lived to be 82. • The heaviest ...

Feces, dung, poop: words that never fail to make a 12-year-old boy laugh. But they have no place in highly advanced scientific processes, right? Well, that’s where you’d be wrong. Researchers ...