Tag: Asian elephants

Summer temps have arrived at the Oregon Zoo, and a few residents in particular are diving in headfirst — trunks and all. Before the zoo opened this morning, four members of the Asian elephant family took an early swim in … Continue

Oregon Zoo

It was a meeting of the two Sams today at the Oregon Zoo. A pair of 4-ton male Asian elephants — 10-year-old Samudra and 21-year-old Samson — had their first tusk-to-tusk encounter at the zoo’s award-winning Elephant Lands … Continue