Kenya: Why It is Rare for an Elephant to Give Birth to Twins

The phenomenon of twin births in elephants is exceedingly rare, occurring approximately less than one per cent of the time among elephant births. This rarity is compounded when considering the gender of the twins. Male-female twin births are even rarer.

The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) on Thursday, January 2, shared on its social media platforms that it spotted a mother elephant with twins in Shimba Hills National Reserve. The occurrence becomes the third twin elephant birth in three years…