Fern is director of government relations at Nonhuman Rights Project and lives in West Hollywood. Many people around the world have just celebrated Valentine’s Day — a holiday that honors love and ...

Zahara, a 16-year-old African elephant at the Indianapolis Zoo, could give birth this fall to the first second-generation elephant conceived through artificial insemination. The youngest of the zoo's ...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Mabu saunters across a grassy field and raises his long, gray trunk to wrangle food from a hole carved inside a large boulder, captivating the attention of a girl propped up on ...