COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - An aging elephant at a Colorado zoo is recovering after being hoisted back to her feet with help from firefighters. The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo says a 33-year-old African ...

Zoo keepers used a crane to haul a four-tonne elderly elephant back to her feet. Quick-thinking staff rushed to save the 47-year-old African elephant after she was knocked to the ground by another ...

In the late afternoon sun, the elephants were outdoors walking slowly around their barren enclosure, lifting each foot gently as if trying out new shoes. Thika, 33, the youngest, was captive-born ...

Wild elephants walk on many different types of terrain, so their feet get maintained naturally, he said. Zoo elephants only encounter two surfaces, so the pedicures are necessary to keep their ...

North American Conference on Elephant Foot Care and Pathology (1st : 1998 : Beaverton, Or.) Notes Based on papers from the First North American Conference on Elephant Foot Care and Pathology, held in ...