The calf, a female, is the first elephant to be born at the zoo in almost 25 years, and only the third born there in the zoo’s 136-year history.

In 2003, an orphaned group of elephants was rescued from slaughter in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland) due to a severe drought and lack of food by a group of ...

Don't blink or you just might miss him!

For the first time in nearly 25 years, D.C.'s Smithsonian National Zoo is celebrating the birth of an Asian elephant calf!