Back in September, senior editor S. Holland Murphy, staff photographer Elizabeth Lavin, and I hopped on a flight to Botswana to visit an elephant orphanage built by Debra Stevens, a Dallas art framer.

As a newborn, Jet the elephant tipped the scales at 262 pounds! Since then, he's hit milestone after milestone and today ...

If you're a mom, you know that enjoying a snack alone doesn't happen very often. Usually, the kids are right beside you begging for a piece of whatever you've got. Apparently, it's the same for animal ...

However, watching a baby elephant play the recorder was definitely not on my bucket list—but it is now! Kirkja, an 18-month-old African elephant, has recently discovered her many musical talents, and ...