There’s a new superstar in the making at the National Zoo: Linh Mai, an Asian elephant calf, was born Feb. 2. The smallest member of the zoo’s herd, which includes her parents, Spike and Nhi Linh, ...

An older female elephant at the Smithsonian National Zoo is raising the herd's newest addition – a 2-month-old calf – after the baby was rejected by her mother. The National Zoo confirmed the ...

Swarna, an older female elephant, has been playing with and helping care for 2-month-old Linh Mai Adam England is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. He joined PEOPLE as a contributing writer in 2022 and ...

When the National Zoo’s female elephant calf, Linh Mai, saw zookeeper Megan Mrozinski with a big bottle of formula Tuesday morning, the animal hurried after her. It was 11:15. Feeding time. Mrozinski ...

For the first time in nearly 25 years, the National Zoo is introducing a baby Asian elephant to the public. Linh Mai, who was born at the zoo in early February, at a weight of 308 pounds, has spent ...

Linh Mai weighed 308 pounds when she arrived. Her mother wanted nothing to do with her. And the team keeping her alive hasn’t stopped since. A critically endangered Asian elephant calf named Linh Mai ...

A baby elephant was born at Washington DC's Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute for the first time in nearly 25 years, and you'll soon get the opportunity to meet her. Linh ...

Elephants have problematic moms, too. A baby Asian elephant named Linh Mai has gone viral after being rejected by her mother. Linh Mai was born on February 2 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in ...

Since her birth in early February, the calf has been growing and beginning to bond with her care team and herd. She will go on view in-person and online starting April 22 Carlyn Kranking | Associate ...

Learn how Linh Mai, the first Asian elephant calf born at the Smithsonian in 25 years, is strengthening genetic diversity in an endangered species. For the first time in nearly a quarter century, the ...

Asian elephants once roamed across most of Asia, now they’re restricted to just 15% of their original range, in a number of fragmented and isolated populations around south and south-east Asia. Today, ...

Women in a Saltburn residential care home knit and sell woolly elephants to help a wildlife charity. Rachel Monger, from Worcester, is working with people in Tanzania on the scheme to protect crops.