The elephant with some of the longest, heaviest tusks in the world died at Amboseli National Park on Tuesday. Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has moved the body of one of Africa’s last giant ...

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Big Tim, one of the most famous elephants in Africa, has died of natural causes in Kenya. He lived an improbably long life, surviving wounds inflicted by poachers.

To protect the male African elephant’s tusks, Fresno Chaffee Zoo enlisted a local company to make brass caps that protect him from possible infection.

To protect the male African elephant’s tusks, Fresno Chaffee Zoo enlisted a local company to make brass caps that protect him from possible infection.

To protect the male African elephant’s tusks, Fresno Chaffee Zoo enlisted a local company to make brass caps that protect him from possible infection.

Scientists have pinpointed how years of civil war and poaching in Mozambique have led to a greater proportion of elephants that will never develop tusks.

Warren the elephant, an 8- or 9-year-old male elephant who arrived at Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium from Swaziland, died Thursday after a procedure to fix his tusk went wrong, KETV reported.