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.

Elephants use their trunks for a long list of reasons: eating, drinking, smelling, socializing. But trunks have about 40,000 individual muscles — and babies have to learn to use them. “Watching baby ...

The baby elephants of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust take eating very seriously. Each of these little pachyderms has been rescued from a life-threatening situation and is now being lovingly cared for by ...