However, that trunk sometimes finds its way into an elephant’s mouth as a result of its sucking reflex. When elephants are born, they experience the same sucking reflex as a newborn baby.

A few lucky visitors to the Oregon Zoo got to witness another first for Portland’s biggest baby, Tula-Tu, on Tuesday morning: ...

Her keepers are helping her practice and learn how to care for her baby, including doing special training that helps her get comfortable with the first moments. “Every elephant born here is part ...

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However, that trunk sometimes finds its way into an elephant’s mouth as a result of its sucking reflex. When elephants are born, they experience the same sucking reflex as a newborn baby. A baby ...

(Only 24 of 38 Asian elephants born during the same period survive.) So when the 327-pound baby arrived three and ... waving his tiny trunk with animation. The skin around his eyes was tinged ...

It’s the baby Malayan tapir ... the other elephants give her new calf a close inspection. The calf learns from the herd how to use its trunk, forage, and negotiate obstacles.

Then the older elephants ... back with her trunk, and even on the face, as if patting him to say, “Things are OK,” and “Stay back in the circle.” Zuli is still a baby and is coddled ...

In Namibia’s Etosha National Park, elephants in the Warrior family ... I had even seen Susan, with a whack of her trunk, pushing another female’s baby away from the rest of the family.