Zoo asks for public's help naming baby elephant

The National Zoo in Washington, D.C., has welcomed a new baby elephant -- the first there in 25 years. Tony Dokoupil has the story.

• Feb 5
• 01:22

Elephant kills tourist in Thailand, 3rd fatality linked to same animal

The victim's wife managed to escape after park rangers scared the animal away, officials said.

• Feb 2

Rampaging elephant kills 20 people, including children, in India

Children and the elderly are among the dead, as well as a professional elephant handler, officials said.

• Jan 13

Seven elephants killed in India after passenger train collides with herd

The train had 650 passengers on board. Several train cars derailed, but there were no human injuries, a spokesperson said.

• Dec 20, 2025

Elephant kills 2 women from U.K. and New Zealand in Zambia

The victims — Easton Janet Taylor from the U.K. and Alison Jean Taylor from New Zealand — were attacked by a female elephant that was with a calf, police said.

• Jul 3, 2025

Circus Elephant

Andy Rooney runs away to the circus for a date...a very heavy date.

• Jan 3, 1988
• 02:16

The Cost Of Ivory

Ivory is selling for nearly $1,000 a tusk, causing more elephants to be slaughtered and more orphaned babies in need of special care provided by an elephant orphanage in Kenya. Bob Simon reports.

• Dec 23, 2008
• 12:18

"Light in the Forest"

Thomas Mangelsen describes one of his favorite photographs, which he took on the back of an elephant.

• May 6, 2018
• 01:09

Train kills elephant in Sri Lanka's latest wildlife-railway accident

A Sri Lankan express train has fatally struck an elephant despite new safety measures introduced after the same train killed 7 elephants in a previous crash.

• May 20, 2025

Video shows elephants shielding calves during California earthquake

A video shows the older elephants — Ndlula, Umngani and Khosi — scramble to encircle and shield the two 7-year-old calves, Zuli and Mkhaya, from any possible threats.

• Apr 15, 2025

Elephant tramples tourist to death in South Africa

The South African national parks agency asked people not to post images of the incident on social media.

• Jan 27, 2025

Tourist killed by elephant while she was bathing animal at sanctuary

A stressed elephant killed a Spanish tourist while she was bathing the animal at a sanctuary in southern Thailand, police said.

• Jan 6, 2025

Young boy survives 5 nights lost in game park full of lions

Officials in Zimbabwe say 7-year-old Tinotenda Pudu survived five nights in the "unforgiving wild" of a game park thanks to his wilderness skills.

• Jan 3, 2025

Can science help end human-elephant conflict?

Decades of deforestation and overdevelopment in Thailand have led to human-elephant conflict, sometimes with deadly consequences. Now, scientists may have a solution after studying elephant behavior.

• Dec 8, 2024
• 22:12

Human-elephant conflict is on the rise in Thailand

A group of U.S. and Thai scientists is developing groundbreaking solutions to try and stem the growing human-elephant conflict in Thailand.

• Dec 8, 2024

Farmers and villagers facing growing elephant conflict in Thailand

Decades of deforestation and overdevelopment in Thailand have led to human-elephant conflict, sometimes with deadly consequences. Now, scientists may have a solution after studying elephant behavior.

• Dec 8, 2024

2 elephants at Ohio zoo will welcome calves by the same father

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Ohio announced this week that for the first time in the zoo's history, two elephants are pregnant at the same time.

• Aug 31, 2024

Secrets of the elephant

There is a lot we're still learning about the magnificent elephant, a creature that became a political animal after satirist Thomas Nast used it in cartoons in the 1870s. Correspondent Faith Salie visits the exhibition "The Secret World of Elephants," at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and checks out the pachyderms at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., to uncover some of the elephant's secrets, from its means of communication, to its trunk, "the Swiss army knife of organs."

• Jul 21, 2024
• 05:26

Sanctuary founder rehabilitates animals removed from shuttered zoo

Puerto Rico's lone zoo was closed after years of complaints about conditions. Colorado-based animal sanctuary founder Pat Craig spent months rescuing the animals.

• Jul 14, 2024

Tourist killed by elephants after he left fiancée in car to take photos

The man's fiancée and two other women were in the vehicle and unharmed, police said.

• Jul 10, 2024

U.S. woman killed by elephant in Zambia, the second this year

Juliana Gle Tourneau, 64, was killed when an elephant the tourists were watching attacked their vehicle, threw Tourneau out and trampled her, officials said.

• Jun 21, 2024

Rare "miracle" elephant twins born in Thailand

One of the caretakers broke his leg trying to restrain the mother elephant after even she was surprised by the second calf.

• Jun 14, 2024

First nonhuman species found to use name-like sounds for each other, study says

Videos show how African elephants may be the first nonhuman species to use vocal name-like identifiers for each other, suggesting "the capacity for some degree of symbolic thought," researchers said.

• Jun 10, 2024

7 young elephants found dead amid monsoon flooding

A preliminary investigation suggested the animals had gotten bogged down in the marsh and drowned, an official said.

• May 27, 2024

Elephant named Viola escapes circus, takes walk through Montana town

Viola escaped her circus handler before she was supposed to appear on stage in Butte, Montana.

• Apr 16, 2024

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