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A very small elephant calf stands among several larger orphaned elephants on red earth, dwarfed by the legs and bodies around it, at a Sheldrick Wildlife Trust elephant orphanage in Kenya.

Africa & Middle East

A Matriarch Died at 53 and Her Calf Would Not Leave

A one-year-old African elephant calf is being raised at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s ...

A pair of bar charts titled Predict context in elephants from EB family and Predict context in non-EB elephants. Teal, yellow and orange bars show classification accuracy between roughly 0.19 and 0.46 for single rumbles, chorus to chorus and single to chorus tests, each bar rising above a dashed predicted distribution baseline and marked with one, two or three asterisks for statistical significance.

Africa & Middle East

Oakland Zoo Helped Pay for the Elephant Chorus Study

When several elephants rumble at the same time, the overlapping sound is not ...

A young bison calf walking forward through grass

Conservation Projects

The 50th Calf Going Home to Blackfeet Land

The fiftieth bison calf born under Oakland Zoo’s partnership with the Blackfeet Nation ...

A young reticulated giraffe walks across a dirt yard past a wooden post and green trees.

North America

Oakland Zoo Giraffe Joann Joins the Herd

Oakland Zoo’s newest giraffe walked into her habitat for the first time in ...

A young mountain lion cub with dark spots on her tawny coat lies curled on a bed of straw inside a green plastic transport crate, looking toward the camera, with a metal water bowl in the foreground.

Conservation Projects

A Rescued Mountain Lion Gave Clover Her Blood

A mountain lion cub arrived at the Oakland Zoo’s veterinary hospital in March ...