Just like human babies, these sweet elephants run like clockwork—and they know exactly when it’s time for their next meal. In ...

Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick was decorated for her work in conservation by Queen Elizabeth II Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously ...

Some of Daphne Sheldrick’s closest friends were animals. The daughter of a British farmer, Ms. Sheldrick fed a baby antelope named Bushy from a milk bottle every four hours. She grew up to be a ...

Daphne Sheldrick, a wildlife conservationist who saved hundreds of orphaned elephants in Africa, work chronicled in documentaries like “Born to Be Wild,” died Thursday in Nairobi, Kenya. She was 83.

When they found Enkesha in Kenya’s Masai Mara in 2017, the baby elephant’s trunk was nearly severed by the wire snare wrapped tightly around it. She was in intense pain and at risk of losing the ...

A giraffe’s unique physiology makes full anesthesia risky and dangerous for the animal and cannot be used during treatment, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust said. Screen grab of YouTube video shared by ...

A video captured the moment an elephant mom thanked rescuers after they saved her calf that had become trapped in a well. Keepers from conservation organization the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust arrived at ...

Daphne Sheldrick rarely met an animal she didn’t want to nuzzle. Her menagerie over the years included a warthog named Grunter and a civet fond of being sprinkled with Old Spice shaving lotion. Her ...

NAIROBI, Kenya -- As dawn breaks, 17 baby elephants and their keepers slowly get up from the stables. The elephant keepers sleep on cots next to the elephants every night, and now it's their duty to ...

Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick D.B.E dedicated her life to making the world a little kinder to animals. During her over 60 years protecting the world’s creatures, particularly threatened species in Africa, ...