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All elephants living in Indian zoos and circuses will be moved to wildlife parks and game sanctuaries where the animals can graze more freely, officials said Friday.
A drought in Kenya has gotten so bad that it is felling even the giants of the animal kingdom — the country's famed elephants which are dying as rivers dry up and grasslands shrivel in parched game reserves.
Hours before a public memorial for Michael Jackson, a herd of elephants were on the march through downtown Los Angeles in a fitting start to a circus-like day.
At least 15 endangered Sumatran elephants have been shot or poisoned to death with cyanide-laced fruit this year in Indonesia, marking a sharp rise over the previous year, a government conservationist said Wednesday.
Seven lumbering elephants — four of them newcomers — are the star attractions in the San Diego Zoo's biggest, most costly expansion in its 90-plus years.
A court in Malawi has stopped the evacuation of more than 60 elephants from a rural area where they were getting into deadly battles with farmers.
Four rare Sumatran elephants were found dead in northwestern Indonesia near an oil palm plantation and are believed to have been poisoned by villagers, a conservationist said Thursday.
After almost nine years of claims and counterclaims, a ruling is finally expected soon in a lawsuit accusing Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus of abusing endangered Asian elephants.
Two rare Sumatran elephants believed to have been poisoned with cyanide-laced pineapples were found dead in the jungles of northwestern Indonesia with their tusks removed, a conservationist said.
Two Sumatran elephants were found dead with gunshots to the head in a protected forest in western Indonesia, a conservationist said Tuesday.
Animal rights activists and Ringling Bros. argued in court Wednesday over the use of metal-tipped prods and chains to control elephants, offering their closing arguments to a federal judge who expressed reservations about regulating circus acts.
The head of the company that owns the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus acknowledged in federal court Tuesday that all his elephant handlers strike the animals with metal-tipped prods, but he said it's necessary to keep the huge animals under control and doesn't harm them.
The treatment of circus elephants went on trial in federal court Wednesday with animal rights groups accusing Ringling Bros. of violating the Endangered Species Act when it uses bullhooks and chains to control its performing pachyderms.
A man was trampled to death and a home destroyed after sixteen wild elephants rampaged through a village on Indonesia's Sumatra island, officials said Wednesday.
The text message from the elephant flashed across Richard Lesowapir's screen: Kimani was heading for neighboring farms.
When illustrating America's close ties to Asia, never forget the elephants.
A coalition of animal welfare groups says it has evidence that Ringling Bros. circus elephants are sometimes chained for days at a time, and the groups asked a judge Wednesday to halt the practice while a lawsuit comes to trial.
South Africa lifted a 13-year ban on killing elephants Thursday, a move conservationists warn could encourage poachers to slaughter the animals for ivory and threaten dwindling populations elsewhere on the continent.
South Africa has lifted a 13-year ban on elephant culling.
Borneo's pygmy elephants may be descendants of an extinct Javan elephant race, saved by chance by an 18th century ruler, according to a new study released Thursday.
Connie Speight has swayed on elephant-back through unforgiving jungle and has adopted nine of the high-maintenance beasts. At 83, the retired American teacher is back in this Southeast Asian country to help save what remains of the once mighty herds.
South Africa says it will allow the culling of elephants for the first time since 1994.
South Africa said Monday that it will start killing elephants to reduce their burgeoning numbers, ending a 13-year ban and possibly setting a precedent for other African nations.
Wildlife experts in northeastern India are experimenting with a new weapon to prevent marauding elephants from destroying homes and crops and trampling people in villages close to their habitat — super-hot chilies.
The hippos had fled to other islands in the White Nile, driven away by one of the few forces that can dislodge a large herd of these fierce beasts — an even larger herd of elephants. And there they were: some 50 elephants, massive black figures peacefully grazing on their newly reclaimed territory on the Nile island of Opekoloe.
Baby shower celebrates zoo's largest babyA baby shower was held over the weekend for Daizy, a baby elephant at the Rio Grande Zoo in Albuquerque, NM. Video included.
Animal rights activists win campaign to rehouse India's suffering elephants - Times OnlineThe elephant may be one of the national emblems of India, but animal-rights activists have long lamented the squalid conditions that most of the country's captive jumbos endure.
Elephants to be banished from all zoosDelhi Zoo will soon be bidding farewell to its three elephants. In fact, elephants will no longer be seen in any zoo or circus in the
SUV hits Elephant...... in Oklahoma!?!??"The dispatcher didn't believe her: 'You hit a what?"' he said. "I told my wife, I don't know whether to cry or laugh."
Police investigate elephant for assault |POLICE are investigating an elephant who has been accused of assaulting a woman by throwing a stone at her head from its zoo enclosure.
French town bans elephants from beachA French town has banned circus elephants from bathing at its beaches over concerns the animals' excrement could pollute the water and pose a health hazard to other swimmers.
Elephant with sore feet gets comfy slippersKeepers of a 40-year-old Asian elephant named Gay noticed an abscess on her right front foot, then another on her left. To help ease her pain, they gave her pedicures, antibiotic foot baths, aloe vera and anti-inflammatory treatments.
Elephant with sore feet gets comfy slippersKeepers of a 40-year-old Asian elephant named Gay noticed an abscess on her right front foot, then another on her left. To help ease her pain, they gave her pedicures, antibiotic foot baths, aloe vera and anti-inflammatory treatments.
Pictured: Elephants march through hotel lobby after it was built on their migration trail | These amazing pictures show why you shouldn't get between an African elephant and its favourite food. Mfuwe Lodge in Zambia happens to have been built next to a mango tree that one family of pachyderms have always visited when the fruit ripens.
Indian elephants trample tourist to deathA retired schoolteacher from France has been trampled to death by wild elephants in southern India, forest officials say.
Thai elephant hurt by mine gets artificial legMotola, a female elephant who stepped on a land mine 10 years ago and endured painful operations, was fitted Saturday in Thailand for a permanent artificial leg.
Elephants Are Self-AwareResearchers (Plotnik, et al, reporting in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Science ) working with Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) at the Bronx zoo, conducted an MSR test.
Crippled Baby Elephant Chhouk: Now Walking and Running on Prosthetic FootSeveral years ago, orphaned baby Chhouk was found wandering alone in the forest without a foot. The endangered Asian baby elephant apparently lost his left front foot due to injuries sustained from a poacher's snare.
Discovery Of Elephants' Oldest Known RelativeThe beginnings of the radiation (diversification) of the modern mammals (placental orders) remain poorly known because of fossil gaps, and especially in some key Southern continents such as Africa.
Deep Deep UndercoverLove or hate the James Bond phenomenon, we bet you've had a hankering to get your hands on a nifty bit of kit that hides a secret camera or a magnet fit for unzipping ladies' dresses at some point in your fantasy life.
Monsoon rejuvenation therapy for jumbos begins in Kerala THRISSUR - Elephants in Thrissur in Kerala, start the monsoon month with long rejuvenation therapy during which they are kept away from hard labour and fed with ayurvedic concoctions for their good health and well-being.
Elephants owe their smooth bottoms to Tesco cocoa butterIt may not have exactly been the target market when it was launched, but Tesco's own-brand cocoa butter is going down a storm with the elephants in Belfast Zoo, particularly to keep their bottoms smooth.
July 3, 2009 ADMJ --Carole Raphaelle Davis Michael Jackson did not love animals. He loved to collect them. He loved owning them like a sheik owns his harem.
Sydney welcomes first elephant calfThe first baby elephant to be delivered in Australia has been born at Taronga Zoo.
Humans Take On Elephants In Cross Species Eating Competition [Video]Humans and elephants alike faced off in a rare cross-species eating contest at Coney Island on Friday and apparently a lot was on the line.
Adopt Bangkok elephants BANGKOK - ELEPHANTS idling outside discos or lumbering through traffic have been part of Bangkok's colourful nightlife for nearly two decades. Now authorities want to send them back to the jungle.
Elephants chomp to victory NEW YORK - IN THE fight of elephants versus people - the elephants now have the upper trunk.
Homeowner sick of the view of his wild hedge snips it into a herd of elephantsA homeowner concerned that his garden was becoming a jungle - has transformed it into a herd of elephants. Green-fingered Gavin Hogg fell in love with the wildlife during a safari in Kenya.
Rabbit-Size Elephant Ancestor Found - Oldest KnownA newfound 60-million-year-old creature called Eritherium azzouzorum—the oldest known elephant ancestor—bolsters the case that whole new orders of mammals were already around less than 6 million years after global catastrophe ended the age of reptiles some 65.5 million years …
The circus is being picketed this year in the United States because of its treatment of animals. It is not the first time that the circus has run into trouble with animal rights activists.
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