African savanna elephants are the biggest elephant species. They can grow to be 10 to 13 feet (3 to 4 meters) tall, and they weigh 4 to 7 tons (3,600 to 6,40 kg) — about as much as a fully ...

Hyped as ‘the biggest elephant’ in the world, Jumbo was met by a record-breaking crowd and hauled up Broadway in his crate. More than a century after his death, mystery still swirls around Jumbo.

The Elephant Sanctuary, in Hohenwald, celebrated its 30 th anniversary on March 3, marking three decades of adopting former ...

Was he really the biggest elephant in the world? And was he suffering from tuberculosis? It took nearly 18 months to negotiate access, establish what the scientific team could do and organize the ...

employee and long-time elephant handler, Troy Metzler ... or the potentially lengthy appeals process—one thing is for certain: the cruelties under the big top have finally been exposed for the whole ...

The hospital is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities; the complex is centrally air-conditioned with a treatment arena that contains two operation areas with special rubber flooring, designed to ...