Unless you know what to look for, you may not notice the differences between an African elephant vs. Asian elephant. These ...

Many key differences separate African elephant from Asian elephants. Not only are they found in completely separate parts of the world, but they live in different habitats as well. The African ...

When looking at an African elephant and an Asian elephant side-by-side, you can really tell the differences in their head shapes and tasks. African elephants generally have much larger tusks than ...

About 150,000 individual muscle cells make up an elephant’s trunk. The trunks of Asian elephants are so sensitive that researchers believe they might be the most sensitive organ yet discovered in an ...

Forest officials Saturday recovered the carcass of a makhna (male Asian elephant without tusks) from a farmland near Kantalai ...

Asian elephants also have smaller ears while African male and female elephants both have tusks, according to the Houston Zoo. Octavia Johnson is a general assignment reporter for the Houston ...

Elephant walking in grass. Image by aj-robbie. via Unsplash Elephants are the largest land animals. African elephants can weigh between 5,000 to 14,000 pounds and reach up to 13 feet tall at the ...

Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Jet, a male Asian elephant calf, was born about 4:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the St. Louis Zoo. Buchanan via St.

They are found throughout Africa and are known for their long trunks and impressive tusks. While African elephants are not typically aggressive towards humans, they have been known to attack and kill ...

Jet, a newborn Asian elephant, was born on Nov. 24 at 4:32 a.m. to his 17-year-old mother Jade. His birth marks the fourth generation of the zoo's elephant family, said Tim Thier, the director of ...