Elephants possess a suite of unique physiological traits and reproductive adaptations that are key to their survival and ecological success. Their complex endocrine systems govern behaviours such as ...

It is no small feat to artificially impregnate an elephant. The basics of artificial insemination may be routine, but a glance into the elephant house at the Woodland Park Zoo yesterday evening should ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Reproductive effort is a key parameter of life history because it measures the resources allocated to reproduction at the expense of growth ...

SEATTLE -- Comforted by buckets of fresh cantaloupe, apples and carrots, the Woodland Park Zoo's 29-year-old Asian elephant, Chai, was artificially inseminated over the weekend. Zoo officials said ...

Purdue University researcher John Critser, working with researchers at the Advanced Fertility Institute at Methodist Hospital of Indianapolis, has transplanted ovarian tissue, collected from an ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — It's a boy! Well actually, it's a girl according to a new baby elephant update from the Toledo Zoo Saturday morning. According to the social media post, the zoo's animal caregivers had ...

BETWEEN 1953 and 1955, I was serving with the Falkland Islands' Dependencies Survey in South Georgia and material was collected from the southern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina. Histological and ...

Unsettling video has emerged from South Africa of a young elephant calf being repeatedly picked up and thrown by an older elephant bull, or adult male. The incident was recorded in Addo Elephant ...