Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo intends to send its two remaining elephants to an accredited zoo to live in a larger social group. CEO Deborah Jensen said Wednesday that a plan to expand the Seattle ...

Woodland Park Zoo, whose elephant program has come under stinging criticism from animal welfare activists, will end the program. "We remain committed to putting the welfare of our elephants first.

Today Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo announced they will be shutting down their elephant program, which means they will be sending their two remaining Asian elephants, 35 year old Chai and 47 year ...

SEATTLE -- The Woodland Park Zoo announced on Wednesday it is ending its on-site elephant program. Zoo staff says two female Asian elephants, 47-year-old Bamboo and 35-year-old Chai, who currently ...

Lead elephant keeper Chuck Harke cleans the teeth of Bamboo, a 34-year-old Asian elephant, during her bath yesterday at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo.

After concerns that the elephants at Woodland Park Zoo weren't leading healthy, happy lives, the zoo created a task force to look into the matter. Six months later, they released their findings ...

After nearly a century, the elephant exhibit at Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo could close. Zoo officials emphasize they have no plans to close the exhibit right now, but it is one of many options ...

Hansa was the first elephant born at the 100-year-old Woodland Park Zoo, which has no male elephants. The zoo’s remaining herd consists of Chai, 28; Bamboo, a 40-year-old Asian elephant; and ...

While most zoo animals live longer than their wild counterparts, zoo elephants do not. Woodland Park Zoo has emerged as one of the best zoos in the nation, but as far as elephants are concerned ...

That cleared the way for Woodland Park to send the elephants to another zoo. There were mixed feelings Thursday as kids and their parents passed by Seattle’s empty elephant exhibit. Jessie Goltz ...

They say an elephant never forgets. Apparently lawyers at the Animal Legal Defense Fund don't either. It has been 3 years since 6 year old elephant Hansa died at Woodland Park Zoo, but now ALD is ...

Woodland Park Zoo says elephants Bamboo and Chai have been resting well at the San Diego Zoo this weekend after being detoured from their trip to Oklahoma City. The elephants are "eating, sleeping ...