PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): In a delightful story of expanding elephant families, E Keo, mother to Noel, stands at the centre of a pioneering breeding programme. Last June ...

Every winter, tens of thousands of elephant seals return to beaches along the California coast. Northern elephant seals were nearly extinct not too long ago, and ecologists have been tracking their ...

A new initiative recently launched by the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science of the University of Peradeniya, with funding from the European Union under an EU-Asia Link Project termed ...

BREEDING: The breeding strategies for forest and savannah elephants are assumed to be mostly the same. Reproductive rates for both species are considered one of the slowest and most energy-intensive.

"This has been a successful breeding program, and today we have four generations of elephants here, with the youngest 18 months old and the oldest 70 years," he told AFP. The orphanage recorded ...