Author: Daniel Tom

Johannesburg Zoo, where Lammie has lived for the entire 39 years of her life, believes it can help Lammie by getting another captive elephant to be her friend. Yet animal welfare advocates believe this could do more harm than good — for both Lammie and the newcomer. While Lammie has only known life at Johannesburg…

A baby elephant who fell into a steep-sided watering hole in Africa was determined not to die. Bruises appeared on her battered body as she struggled to get free of the hole that could have been her final resting place. It was early morning on August 14 in Kenya when people from the Taita Hills…

Earlier this week, rangers patrolling the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya spotted five elephants who’d been wounded by arrows. When the rangers gathered information from nearby communities, they learned what had happened — local farmers had shot the elephants after the herd ate some of their crops. Before the team could help the injured…

An orphaned baby elephant, recently rescued and placed in a wildlife sanctuary, is melting hearts as she learns to navigate life on her own, including mastering the use of her trunk. Abandoned at a young age, this little elephant had not yet fully developed the skills most young elephants learn from their mothers. Trunks are…

In Botswana’s Linyanti bush, a mother elephant fiercely defeпded her calf from a pack of аɡɡгeѕѕіⱱe hyenas in a teпѕe Ьаttɩe for survival. Despite the mother’s efforts, the calf ɩoѕt its tail during the ѕtгᴜɡɡɩe but eѕсарed without further һагm. The сoпfгoпtаtіoп began when the young elephant accidentally wandered away from its mother, making it…

The 9-month-old elephant, which rescuers have named Bani (Mother Earth), was hit by a speeding train near Corbett National Park in northern India in mid-December, leaving her seriously injured and paralyzed. Bani’s mother, who was pregnant at the time, died in the same accident. A veterinary worker at the Wildlife SOS Elephant Conservation and Care…