On Tuesday, for the first time in 80 years, twin elephants were born in captivity in Sri Lanka, according to wildlife officials. A 25-year-old elephant named Surangi gave birth to the twin males at ...

Sri Lanka's Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage is a major tourist attraction Sri Lanka's main elephant orphanage marked its 50th anniversary Sunday with a fruit feast for the 68 jumbos at the showpiece ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — An elephant in Sri Lanka gave birth to twins Tuesday. This is the first time this has happened in almost 80 years, according to wildlife authorities. The mother elephant, ...

"The babies are relatively small, but they are healthy," said the head of the orphanage Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in journalism for seven ...

The twins, both males, were born at Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage in the central hills, an orphanage spokesperson said. The mother, a 25-year-old elephant named Surangi, had given birth before in 2009 ...

A mother elephant recently gave birth to twins in Sri Lanka. And that’s much rarer than you’d think. Twenty-four-year-old Surangi, an elephant at the Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, gave birth to two ...