"Newborn elephants, like Kirby, are born with their eyes open," Rob Bernady, elephant curator at the zoo, told Chron. "This is because an elephant calf needs to keep up with their herd quickly.
The first Asian elephant born at Tokyo's Ueno zoo in its 138-year history was ... slaughtered due to fears they might escape from their enclosure and run amok in the teeming city.
A day before Thanksgiving good tidings came early for Zoo Miami as they welcomed the birth of a rare giant eland. The new baby can be found tucked in the herd in their enclosure. The male calf was ...
An elephant escaped from a zoo onto a national highway in central Quang Nam Province on Tuesday, disrupting traffic. The elephant escaped from the zoo in Thang Binh District and ran out on Vo Chi Cong ...
Just a few months later, on 4 November, the second elephant, Esha, gave birth to a calf surrounded by the herd, but zoo staff say that it soon became apparent that the rearing of the newborn was ...