And you might be surprised to know that war elephants played a military support role as late as World War II! Read on to find out more. Asian elephants were the first elephant species to be tamed ...

One of the smoothest births I've ever seen,' official says PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — The long wait is over. After more than 20 ...

An expert on Asian elephants is sounding the alarm about “elephant sanctuaries” after a tourist was killed while visiting one in Thailand. Blanca Ojanguren García, 22, a law student at the ...

The first Asian elephants at the zoo were also presented by Thailand, then known as Siam, 132 years ago. Subsequent gifts of elephants were also big crowd-pleasers, but during World War II all of ...

The zoo’s alleged “cruel confinement” of Happy and the zoo’s other Asian elephant Patty led to the unwanted ranking from the animal rights group In Defense of Animals — with only the Los ...

Our trusty van was parked nearby, but we were stuck, hiding in some bushes. A herd of Asian elephants were just a stone’s throw away, and they were agitated. A colossal gaur (a remarkably ...

A young woman was killed by an Asian elephant at a sanctuary in Thailand on Friday during a bathing session gone wrong, according to officials. Spanish citizen Blanca Ojanguren García ...

According to the nonprofit World Animal Protection, Thailand is home to 15% of the 52,000 Asian elephants currently living in the wild. According to the nonprofit, Asian elephants are an ...

Home ranges for Asian elephants begin at a minimum of 2,471 acres, but the two left living at the city's zoo are confined to just a few acres — a circumstance activists believe to be deadly Los ...