A newborn elephant usually weighs in anywhere from 200-300 pounds and stands around three feet tall! As they grow up, they rapidly pack on the pounds and will end up weighing up to 15,000 pounds when ...

Baby Elephant's Big Stretch After Much-Needed Power Nap Is Cuteness Overload originally appeared on PetHelpful. Many new parents will talk about the “newborn big stretch” and describe it as their ...

Sometimes births go exactly as planned. And sometimes they turn into seven-hour nail-biters where the medical team starts wondering if they'll even be able to save the mom. N'Dala's delivery was ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - The Sedgwick County Zoo announced a celebration planned for Saturday in recognition of a milestone in the elephant habitat. The zoo announced that Bomani and Kijani are turning ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) – The Sedgwick County Zoo welcomed its third baby elephant this week. The African elephant calf was born early Tuesday morning to mother Arusi after 651 days of gestation. The ...

In 2008, a two-year-old elephant in the Houston Zoo named Mac suddenly took ill. The usually playful and mischievous elephant toddler became sluggish, lost his appetite, and his head started swelling.

The Fort Worth Zoo announced on May 7 that it welcomed its second elephant calf in one year, a record-breaking Asian elephant named Sam Houston Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been ...