With African elephants endangered, a UCLA-led study says their decline could ripple from the rainforest to the concert stage—revealing a critical link between the threatened species and pianos and ...

The African savanna elephant is the biggest of the three species and the largest land animal on Earth. Adult males weigh around 5,000 to 6,000 kilograms, which is 11,000 to 13,000 pounds — or about ...

It was also the home of Little Diamond, the first African elephant born in captivity in the Western Hemisphere. Little Diamond was born in March 1978 and weighed 200 pounds at birth.