In the film adaptation of Sara Gruen’s book-club favorite Water for Elephants, Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson spend a lot of time rubbing up against elephants, and a little bit of time ...

In this Thai village, life revolves around 300 captive elephants. In Ban Ta Klang, people live alongside the elephants they raise and train for tourism.

Two weeks after Billy and Tina's move from LA, a Tulsa Zoo official said, "We're going to give them complex spaces, enrichment" in a brand new facility with five other elephants.

Maetaman is one of many animal attractions in and around tourist-swarmed Chiang Mai. People spill out of tour buses and clamber onto the trunks of elephants that, at the prodding of their mahouts ...