For Elephants

Join us and celebrating World Elephant Day!🐘💙

For Elephants is honored to be an advocate for elephant conservation, endocrinology, and education.

Thank you to Women in Wildlife for featuring our latest publication on how hormone profiles from wild elephants can help support the care of elephants in zoos! 🐘

Congratulations to For Elephants’ Ph.D. student, Katie, for receiving the School of Natural Resources 2025 doctoral award! 🐘🔬

Read more about Katie’s research here!

News Story | School of Natural Resources | University of Nebraska–Lincoln The Illinois native came to Nebraska in 2018 to study elephants as a master's student at University of Nebraska-Omaha. Now a doctoral student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Campbell recently won a Meritorious Graduate Student Award from the School of Natural Resources for her many accomplish...

Our hearts go out to the Sedgwick herd and elephant team during this difficult time. Losing a calf is heartbreaking and we extend our deepest sympathies to everyone who cared for supported Simunye ❤️❤️

With profound sadness, the Sedgwick County Zoo announces that 29-year-old African elephant Simunye, has delivered a stillborn calf following a healthy, full-term pregnancy. The Zoo community, staff, and elephant herd alike are mourning this devastating loss. This would have marked the first elephant born at Sedgwick County Zoo in its 54-year history.

The monumental journey of Simunye's 22-month pregnancy ended in heartbreak on Friday, March 14, despite the expert care provided by the elephant care and veterinary teams. Regular prenatal exams and behavioral observations indicated that both mom and calf were healthy with no sign of complications throughout the entire gestational term.

Simunye began showing signs of active labor early Thursday morning while the care team watched remotely to allow for the most natural birthing environment. She delivered her calf Friday afternoon and despite her best attempts to assist, it showed no signs of movement. Other members of the herd surrounded Simunye throughout labor, and continued to provide support throughout the night as they grieved the loss together.

The calf, a female, was named Malaika, which means “angel” in Swahili.
Read more here: https://scz.org/blog/heartbreaking-loss-within-our-african-elephant-herd

Happy Valentine’s Day from For Elephants! 🐘🩷

Happy Holidays from For Elephants🎄🐘

How to we test the samples? Easy answer: ELISA ✔️

ELISA stands for Enzyme-Linked immunosorbent Assay and is important to the accuracy of analyzing hormones. For elephants tracks and interprets many types of hormones like testosterone, progesterone, cortisol, leptin and more. We conduct what is called a “Competitive ELISA” which illicits a color change showing binding to the hormone we are testing!

It’s Giving Tuesday! ❤️

You can support our elephant research and our lab by donating on our website! One easy way to support us is to purchase our apparel! Every purchase goes to fund our mission to save elephants! 🐘

Donate here: https://www.for-elephants.com/donate

Waiting for the right time to order our new tshirt design? Well today’s the day! You’ll get $5 off when you preorder our new shirt! Offer lasts until Monday the 2nd! 🐘

Happy Thanksgiving From For Elephants! 🍁

We are so thankful for all of our supporters and of course… elephants!🐘

Join the herd🐘🐘🐘

Pre-order our new tshirt design to support For Elephants research! Deadline to pre-order is December 4th! Order will come in 2-3 weeks after the deadline.

Tshirt Pre-Order Link: https://www.for-elephants.com/shop/p/conservation-begins-with-me-t-shirt