Let’s take a look at just how long an elephant’s gestation period is and learn a little more about elephants themselves along the way. There are two extant species of elephants: the African ...

In optimal conditions, elephants may reproduce at a rate of 6 percent. Elephants have the longest gestation period of any animal at 22 months, and twinning is rare, though it does happen. Elephants do ...

(Elephants have the longest gestation period of any living mammal, between 18 and 22 months. Rose-Tu’s baby was likely conceived around late May 2023.) Oregon Zoo’s elephant Rose-Tu takes a ...

As an elephant's gestation period is usually 20 to 22 months, she is expected to give birth sometime between August and October next year, the zoo said. The elephant, which came to the zoo in 2001 ...