The young elephant, known as the real-life Dumbo to animal activists, died after breaking both of its back legs at the Phuket Zoo Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

The Dumbo octopus is an elusive cephalopod that gets its name from its large ear-like fins, which resemble those of the lovable Disney elephant. But there's still lots we don't know about these ...

The film follows Holt, a circus performer, who has to look after an elephant with large ears named Dumbo. He learns that Dumbo can fly, which results in a number of crooks attempting to take the ...

The dozen or so species that make up Grimpoteuthis are called Dumbo octopuses because of the two large fins—one on either side of the mantle—that protrude like ears. Add in the octopus’s ...

Circus owner Max Medici hires him to take care of Dumbo, a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him the laughingstock of the struggling circus troupe. But when Holt's children discover that ...

In “Dumbo,” the elephant is born into the care of a small ... large circus owner named V.A. Vandervere (Michael Keaton). It’s in Vandervere’s orbit that we meet Gatt’s character, Skellig.