Elephant caregivers play an important role in their society by comforting and teaching babies when mom is occupied.

Newborn elephants can stand up and walk within an hour of being born. A new video shows how one mama elephant helps her baby.

A video shot of their enclosure at the park Monday morning shows the five African ... older elephants — Ndlula, Umngani, Khosi — scramble to encircle and shield the two 7-year-old calves ...

Elephants are known for their intelligence, complex social behavior, memory and size, including their giant ears. The ears of ...

Photograph By Michale Nichols, Nat Geo Image Collection Two African elephant calves play near a grazing adult elephant. Photograph By Beverly Joubert, Nat Geo Image Collection A young elephant ...

A video shot of their enclosure at the park Monday morning shows the five African ... older elephants — Ndlula, Umngani, Khosi — scramble to encircle and shield the two 7-year-old calves ...