The 57-year-old from Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, was spending Saturday at the park with his family when he was trampled to death by a male elephant.

The telehandlers can carry loads up to 6,000 pounds. A single, multi-functional joystick results in half as many hand movements required to position loads, according to the company. A single master ...

An elephant in South Africa’s Kruger National Park trampled a tourist to death as he was trying to protect children, officials say. The incident Sunday involving 59-year-old Shaik Adam Shabir Ammed ...

Within the Amboseli ecosystem that straddles southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, only about 10 of these large-tusked elephants remain ... all paired with South African wines.

While some land animals (giraffes) might be taller, and some marine life (blue whales) might be heavier, one animal stands alone as the biggest land animal on earth, and that is the African elephant.

there was one elephant that stood out among the rest – the “Giant of Angola,” the largest elephant ever recorded. African elephants are the largest land animal on earth. They can weigh up to 15,000 ...

The elephants will soon find their permanent home at Vantara, an environment that naturally mirrors their native habitat, where they will live chain-free and never be forced into labour.

Five elderly African elephants at a Colorado zoo will stay there, after the US state’s highest court said the animals had no legal right to demand their release because they are not human.

A court has ruled that five elephants being held in a Colorado zoo do not have the legal right to pursue their release, because they are not human. An animal rights group brought a lawsuit on ...

The elephants will be transported in specially designed elephant ambulances, with the calf Maya travelling alongside her mother. A team of nearly 200 experts, including elephant veterinarians, ...

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed the suit against the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in May 2024 alleging the park in Colorado Springs kept five elderly African elephants named Missy, Kimba ...