Modern elephants typically consist of herds of females and young elephants, with young elephants led by an experienced adult female.
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"Elephants in the enterprise want to do business with elephants," he said.
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Asian elephants are smaller than African elephants, but they're still quite heavy.
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Related 6 Q's About the News | Elephants in Trouble E.L.L. Practice | Protecting Elephants
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Elephants Without Borders Elephants Without Borders aims to improve elephant conservation science in Africa.
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Related Student Crossword | Endangered Species E.L.L. Practice | Protecting Elephants News Q's | Elephants in Trouble
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Her Facebook and YouTube channel Elephant News is an epicenter of pictures and videos of joyful elephants being elephants juxtaposed with elephants in jeopardy, each post inspiring and informative.
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So male elephants and older female elephants tend to have a larger set of tusks.
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Overall, including forest elephants, there are thought to be between 203,000 and 500,000 elephants across Africa.
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Elephants The Little Rock Zoo predicts that elephants will make the most noise during the eclipse.
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Overall, including forest elephants, there are thought to be between 400,000 and 500,000 elephants across Africa.
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There, the elephants will join 29 other elephants owned by the circus's parent company, Feld Entertainment.
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Elephants: The Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is moving forward with new protections for African elephants.
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Hunting means more elephants and lions, but only for the purposes of killing elephants and lions.
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The scientists sequenced the genomes of two African savanna elephants, two African forest elephants, two Asian elephants, two extinct so-called straight-tusked elephants, four extinct woolly mammoths, including two from North America and two from Siberia, one extinct Columbian mammoth and two extinct American mastodons.
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It's not completely clear how many elephants live in the country, but in 503 the number of wild elephants was estimated at 3,000 to 3,700, while elephants in captivity numbered around 4,000.
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After poachers have killed male elephants with the biggest tusks, older female elephants are then sought after.
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In my area, people caught and trained elephants, but it's now illegal to capture elephants for tourism.
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Guarding elephants The project will span 12 months and around 60 elephants are expected to be tagged.
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In 2015, I had an art show called Pink Elephants, which featured drawings of homoerotic, anthropomorphic elephants.
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I traversed the Terrace of the Elephants, where Khmer noblemen once watched parades of royal war elephants.
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For the mass rate, I count about 6 elephants in 0.3 seconds, or 20 elephants per second.
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Some 130,000 elephants, a third of Africa's elephants, were massacred last decade, 55,000 or so in Tanzania.
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It's not completely clear how many elephants live in the country, but in 503 the number of wild elephants was estimated at between 3,000 and 3,700, while elephants in captivity numbered around 4,000.
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Conservationists managed to tranquilize the elephants from helicopters and then used cranes to move the elephants onto trucks.
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Elephants' olfactory prowessThe results of this recent study are yet another entry in the olfactory resume of elephants.
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Save the Elephants is studying the migration of elephants by using GPS radio collars and satellite-generated maps.
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Right, two elephants having sex - after day ten, it&aposs just two elephants having sex in your front yard.
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In fact, it's unclear what will happen first: the end of circus elephants or the extinction of African elephants.
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The main finding was that these elephants slept far less than in other studies of wild or captive elephants.
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When elephants try to pass the wire fence, angry bees swarm out and the elephants quickly flee, residents say.
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One argument is that elephants need more space, although perhaps not as much as activists say they need: Plus, some studies show captive elephants live significantly fewer years on average compared with elephants in the wild.
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Understanding elephants' behaviour also permits it to be manipulated in ways that help reduce direct conflict between elephants and people.
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It is one of the most deadly viral infections in elephants worldwide but is most commonly found in Asian elephants.
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Rats sometimes help free other trapped rats and elephants rescue other elephants when they've fallen into a hole or water.
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Thailand alone has an estimated 4,000 domesticated elephants, many working in the tourism trade, along with about 2,500 wild elephants.
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The zoo's other elephants were not infected, nor were another roughly 100 people who were near the three sickened bull elephants.
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Through this work, Save the Elephants knows that some elephants move nearly 40 miles a day, usually under cover of night.
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Botswana, a southern African country, has up to 200,000 elephants, one of the biggest concentrations of African elephants in the world.
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Even with China's ivory ban, at least 25,63 elephants are poached each year for their tusks — 26 dead elephants a day.
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At least 10 elephants were killed during construction when they collided with trains, according to Save the Elephants, a nongovernmental group.
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But many local governments have recently passed laws meant to protect elephants or remove exotic animals — including elephants — from city-owned facilities.
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Straight-tusked elephants were traditionally thought to be most closely related to Asian elephants due to similarities in their skulls and teeth.
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Other small studies on elephants in their natural habitats estimated elephants spent 0.67 to 2 hours a day sleeping on their sides.
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But elephants in captivity do suffer when their natural needs — including socializing with other elephants, unrestrained movement and natural foraging — are not met.
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"These elephants are our resources, and we object to them being hunted for problems caused by different populations of elephants," the group said.
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But if we are counting elephants — the planned Block II version of SLS could launch 30 elephants, while SpaceX's BFR could launch 34.
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She pioneered raising orphaned infant elephants and rhinos on milk, the statement said, and that the knowledge has since saved 230 elephants in Kenya.
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As a Samburu elder told us concerning elephants, 'If we lose the elephants and the other animals, we will have nothing to return to.
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In other words, wild elephants could be extinct in a few decades, and, at this rate of decline, it may be quicker for African elephants.
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There have been numerous conflicts between humans and elephants in the region in the recent years, with elephants being injured or killed by speeding trains.
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Scientists know a lot about the sleep patterns of captive elephants, but generally those elephants live the good life, and probably sleep more than usual.
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After a train killed five elephants in Odisha in 2012, Mr. Mohanty, the wildlife expert, pushed for reducing speed limits in areas where elephants congregate.
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"They are probably among the most extremely endangered of Africa's elephants," said Iain Douglas-Hamilton, the founder of Save the Elephants, a wildlife advocacy group.
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Michael Chase, director of the charity Elephants Without Borders, which conducted the surveys, said he had never seen so many dead elephants in one go.
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Circus Elephants Today Burton's film (spoiler) ends with a Disney-approved bow, but the realities of elephants' treatment are a bit less fixable than Dumbo's situation.
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In addition, they argue that having elephants raises awareness for elephants — and that's crucial because the elephant population has been shrinking drastically, largely because of poachers.
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The United Nations Environment Program estimated that around 100,000 elephants were killed between 2010 and 2012, out of a total population of less than 500,000 elephants.
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Still, at least 10 elephants have been killed by trains during the railway's construction, confused by the new infrastructure, according to the NGO Save the Elephants.
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Elephants are able to remember other elephants they've met long ago, and they're pretty good at remembering important locations, like where the nearest water hole is.
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"We have many elephants concentrating in very few water holes fighting to drink water and this has made the smaller elephants lacking water," the page says.
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Smith's report about saving elephants in Kenya seemed less interested in the elephants and more interested in pointing out the role of women in the work.
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Wildlife Asia Elephants, an organization working to protect the animals, says habitat loss and illegal killing for ivory are among the greatest threats to the elephants.
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We are searching for the elusive tuskless elephants of Gorongosa, elephants that naturally lack the magnificent ivory staffs all too tragically coveted by wealthy collectors worldwide.
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One unexpected discovery: DJI Phantom drones can steer elephants away from park boundaries — likely because they sound like a bit like bees, and elephants hate bees.
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Circus retiring its elephants, there are still plenty of shows in the US that use elephants — and there are few regulations that ensure they are treated properly.
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Ultimately, I grab a frittata square from Elephants ($5.09) and J winds up with a bagel and cream cheese and dried sausage stick ($4.95), also from Elephants.
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Elephants raised in captivity usually live to around 40 and are three times more likely to die during infancy, while wild elephants can live into their 70s.
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NASA advertises that it will be able to launch 85033 elephants to LEO on Block I SLS, or 2.8 more elephants than the Falcon Heavy could launch.
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A census by Elephants Without Borders, a conservation group, found numbers of Savanna elephants - which favor more open habitat - fell 270 percent between 235 and 2014 to 350,000.
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The study only tracks two wild elephants, and I've asked the researchers how they plan on increasing the statistics, or if the collar could wake the elephants up.
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A slate of new studies this week reveal two realities about elephants: they're great at protecting tiny critters in their environment, and humans are terrible at protecting elephants.
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A new video from the Save the Elephants Foundation features a group of elephants rushing to meet a new rescued baby elephant, "Dok Geaw," at Elephant Nature Park.
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Between 2010 and 2012, 100,153 African elephants were illegally killed for their ivory in the continent — an average of 96 elephants per day, or one every 15 minutes.
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It sought release of data because of what it said was a serious risk that elephants could spread the potentially deadly disease to other elephants or to humans.
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Mr. Douglas-Hamilton, who has been studying elephants for more than 50 years and founded an organization called Save the Elephants, said he was "obsessed" with Morgan's journey.
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The new rules will allow hunters to import the heads of elephants killed in Zambia and Zimbabwe — despite elephants being listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
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But The Mistreatment Of Circus Elephants Got Much Worse The bullhook, or ankus, is a nasty looking poker and hook that trainers have used to direct elephants for centuries.
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No, they don't forget It's sometimes tempting to anthropomorphize -- to give an animal human characteristics -- but the more I speak to people about elephants, the more elephants seem special.
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Circus Will Retire Its Elephants The Surprising & Sweet Way We Can Help Save Elephants Before It's Too Late I Quit My $85K Job To Cuddle Kittens For Minimum Wage
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To put the Asian elephant crisis in perspective, there are 415,000 African elephants in the world, but only around 45,000 Asian elephants, with a third of those in captivity.
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Asian elephants are the elephants people are most familiar with because they're used in zoos, circuses and elephant rides, yet no one knows what this species is truly facing.
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Children's Books A PARADE OF ELEPHANTS Written and illustrated by Kevin Henkes It must be something about their steady, gentle hugeness: Elephants are especially beloved by the smallest children.
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Some local news reports said that several baby elephants had not even moved as the train approached, and that adult elephants had sought to protect them by surrounding them.
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Elephants—both those from the ancient past and those living today—were shaped by this mating practice, but it's not something the two remaining species of elephants are into anymore.
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Given that half of Central Africa's forest elephants, which are distinct from the more well-known savannah elephants, live in Gabon, these losses represent a major setback for the species.
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"We do feel these two elephants are representative of the broader population," Manger said, adding he hoped future research could be done with larger numbers of wild elephants, including males.
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Understanding how elephants use smell to find food may have implications for protecting them from conflicts with humans, which often happen when elephants leave protected areas to seek cultivated crops.
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In one of her favorites, "Dovima With Elephants," Richard Avedon's 1955 photograph of that model posed between two elephants at the circus, she is reminded of the choreographer Twyla Tharp.
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In addition to detecting, identifying and communicating with individuals through sound calls, elephants often use their trunk, which is an extremely sensitive olfactory organ, to both touch and smell other elephants.
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One of these shows was E Is For Elephants: The Etchings of Edward Gorey, a quirky look at Gorey's late-in-life obsession with elephants at the Massachusetts College of Art.
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It's still not quite as many elephants as NASA's Saturn V rocket, though—the 3,100-ton rocket was equivalent to roughly 400 elephants back in its day, according to NASA's estimates.
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But the company is retiring the elephants earlier than expected; it didn't take as long to build the necessary enclosures for the incoming elephants at the CEC, according to the company.
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The discrepancy is so large because while African elephants are threatened by ivory hunters, Asian elephants have to contend with a disappearing habitat due to a boom in development and agriculture.
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A year-long investigation by Mother Jones revealed that Ringling circus elephants spent most of their lives chained up and under constant threat of bullhooks, the tools used to control elephants.
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Social networks are just one area of research for Save the Elephants, in addition to how elephants are migrating and whether orphans show negative physical effects after their mothers are killed.
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" "The elephants here are relaxed," he smiles, "Hakuna Matata.
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" Chaser: David Brooks column, "Can Elephants Learn From Failure?
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Ants Among Elephants , by Sujatha Gidla (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) .
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There were many shows — I remember lions, elephants, monkeys.
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NAIROBI, Kenya — Finally, there's some good news for elephants.
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Elephants are equally intelligent — and their memories are extraordinary.
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Although the majority of areas containing elephants had protected status, researchers reported finding high numbers of elephant carcasses in those regions, indicating that elephants are struggling both within and outside the parks.
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With the number of jobless elephants likely to increase as forests shrink and the logging industry wanes, the government is exploring the possibility of releasing some of the elephants into the wild.
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This dedication to treating and caring for the world's elephants aligns with Wildlife SOS' overall mission: ending the tourism practice of riding elephants in India and protecting all of the country's animals.
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She started a program at the Surin center, where they hired elephants and mahouts and brought in volunteers to help care for the elephants, which aren't in chains and don't do tricks.
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Releasing them into the forest, where about 3,000 wild elephants live, is not an option because it is illegal under Thai law; in the forest, domesticated elephants would compete with wild counterparts.
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When elephants are damaging corn fields and locals ask for help from Kenya Wildlife Service, the response is based on benevolence that seeks the best results with the least damage to elephants.
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Lenin Chisaira, director of Advocates4Earth, a group challenging a purported plan to sell 35 elephants to countries in Asia, said the water problems at the park were not enough to justify elephants' sale.
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The rangers plan to ride the elephants' backs into the bush (elephants are better for the job than 4X4 trucks, they say), in a military-style operation they expect to begin this week.
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Between 2002 and 2011, 62 percent of African forest elephants vanished, and between 2007 and 2014, the numbers of savanna elephants dropped by nearly a third, with tens of thousands killed each year.
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The continuing slaughter of African elephants was starkly confirmed in August when the results of a major census were reported, showing that one-third of savanna elephants were killed between 2007 and 2014.
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Poachers kill 96 elephants a day in Africa, and forest elephants could be extinct in the next 10 years, said John Calvelli, executive vice president of public affairs at the Wildlife Conservation Society.
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Elephants performed for the last time yesterday for Ringling Bros.
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This arrangement is enough to stop elephants in their tracks.
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Jumbo and Jumbo joining their fellow elephants in the wild.
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Elephants could be gone from the wild in a generation.
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Oh, and even with 33 noncompliances, Liebel kept his elephants.
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When elephants fall into deep holes, they often get trapped.
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They've developed a plan to "rewild" the elephants, Lemoonga said.
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Circus to give up using live elephants in their shows.
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To be sure, elephants can be dangerous -- and sometimes deadly.
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Baby elephants aren't exactly well known for their smooth moves.
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Elephants represent a great deal of things around the world.
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No, it's not lions, tigers or elephants: it's rescue dogs.
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The animals pictured include bulls, rhinoceros, elephants, and puzzlingly, unicorns.
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The elephants were oddly small next to the mammoth's bulk.
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There may be still plenty more gas elephants to bag.
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The clock is ticking to save Central Africa's forest elephants.
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Made possible by The Rockefeller Foundation. Chimpanzees. Elephants. Crows. Dolphins.
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They are a herd of around 90 - yes 90 elephants!
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Freshly slaughtered elephants are, and now, science can prove it.
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Cion arranged for her to visit her favorite animal: elephants.
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One of those elephants didn't want to see her go.
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The other four elephants are all being treated for injuries.
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Later they saw wild elephants, a rhino and other species.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - There's an old saying that elephants never forget.
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Elephants are known to stick together, even through muddy situations.
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Elephants run a mile immediately when a drone comes near.
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The elephants roar but the crocodile refuses to let go.
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That's about a third of all elephants on the continent.
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Elephants, however, have not been an issue during the campaign.
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I find it shocking that elephants are killed by men.
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Elephants are known for being deeply social and empathic creatures.
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This is something the elephants in Congress certainly won't forget.
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It's unclear when the 18 elephants will make the trip.
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Baby elephants are built for the jungle — and your hugs.
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Currently, there's estimated to be 470,000 African elephants alive worldwide.
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" Kate asked, "Are they educating their children about the elephants?
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Many scream and run away when they see other elephants.
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The filmmakers build a strange and solemn cosmology around elephants.
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Now people in Mayilattumpara are no longer disturbed by elephants.
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"They are icons, they are ambassadors for elephants," he said.
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Female elephants know the importance of creating a tight squad.
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Elephants can gauge quantity using their sense of smell alone.
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For years, they found only animal fossils, including dwarf elephants.
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"The crisis facing elephants is particularly tragic," she said recently.
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Elephants, for example, are now classic characters in the ride.
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African elephants lay on a riverside plain in Lilongwe, Malawi.
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Osmond: Elephants are, they're very heavy on their front shoulders.
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The huge reserve should hold tens of thousands of elephants.
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He's tracking elephants, which are tagged with GPS tracking collars.
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Elephants and zebras walk through Amboseli National Park in Kenya.
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Police said the elephants later disappeared back into the forest.
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Whales, dolphins and elephants could be protected from abuse, too.
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The pyramid weighs 11,257 pounds, which is approximately two elephants.
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Even elephants are affected by the Boko Haram food crisis.
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Were we just left to clean up after the elephants?
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Trump helped feed the young elephants milk from giant bottles.
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Elephants Can Remember, a Hercule Poirot novel, is one example.
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It now stands at 4,000, compared with 1633,000 for elephants.
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These mammals have several copies of LIF; elephants have ten.
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More than half of Thailand's 7,000 elephants live in captivity.
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There would be no food to feed all the elephants.
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"Do brave men hunt elephants?" he asked followers on Twitter.
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"I wanted those elephants," she says after sleeping with Euron.
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Others depict animals of great power, like tigers and elephants.
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Elephants are the true masters of the Swiss Army tusk.
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You can hear the elephants' trumpetcall the world to order.
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Officials had feared that those elephants had also later perished.
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Can you spot a hidden heart somewhere among these elephants?
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Elephants could be gone from the wild within a generation.
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All that's left is to convert from kilograms to elephants.
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The creator of this animation must be using smaller elephants.
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Earlier that morning, his rangers had spotted the elephants there.
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Chimpanzees, dolphins, elephants — they've all demonstrated signs of recognizing individuals.
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The elephants were retired to the circus's sanctuary in Florida.
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But how would micrometer cracks in their skin help elephants?
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According to Canney, 18 elephants were killed over three years.
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The local sentiment was overwhelmingly in support of the elephants.
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I got a beautiful picture of him with the elephants.
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Conservation International, an environmental organization that promotes biodiversity, has captured footage of the Samburu raising orphaned elephants, thirsty elephants seeking out well water, and a lone African lioness capturing a wildebeest outside the sanctuary.
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"The unfortunate incident happened when the hunting party got in the middle of a breeding herd of elephants and were attacked by female elephants," Nyasha Simukai a spokesman for Zimbabwe National Parks, told CNN.
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Videos posted by Lucy King, PhD, who has been researching the interactions between elephants and bees for more than a decade, shows entire packs of elephants flee from the sound of an angry swarm.
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The last hope for elephants On January 1, China banned all trade in ivory, a move aimed at stopping the killing of elephants by cutting demand for the material in the world's largest market.
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A recent study showed a dip in India's elephant population, though scientists disagreed over whether this was because of a change in how the elephants were counted or if there were actually fewer elephants.
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Poaching has depleted Botswana's elephant population, the largest in the world, adding to Africa's overall elephant losses; according to Elephants Without Borders, one-third of the continent's elephants have been killed in the past decade.
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One circus exhibitor recently paid a paltry penalty after allowing elephants to repeatedly endanger the public, including an incident in which the elephants escaped from a Shrine circus and ran amok for nearly an hour.
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Ittipan Khaolamai, manager of the Royal Elephant Kraal in Ayutthaya province, north of Bangkok, which is home to around 90 elephants, defended the use of elephants as tourist attractions, saying caretakers treated the animals well.
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Elephants frequently enter plantations in the area to feed on palm oil fruits, especially during the rainy season, he said, adding a team had this week been trying to prevent elephants straying onto human settlements.
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STRICTLY NO ELEPHANTS By Lisa MantchevIllustrated by Taeeun Yoo 32 pp.
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A census plane flies over a herd of elephants in Botswana.
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Sales went down after the circus removed its elephants last year.
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One of the elephants in that video has a bloody ear.
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Advocates say the law doesn't go far enough in protecting elephants.
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They grow up so fast, and, if they're elephants, large too!
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Rescuing elephants may turn out to be profitable for the Samburu.
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But at least it keeps some of these baby elephants alive.
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Despite living in neighboring habitats, these elephants don't like to mix.
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Elephants are often spotted here, the guide says over the speaker.
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She was a black American woman with a penchant for elephants.
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"Elephants aren't meant to be trophies, they're meant to roam free."
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Attacks by elephants have been on the rise in eastern India.
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Zimbabwean wildlife authorities, meanwhile, deny they plan to sell the elephants.
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This drug is typically used to sedate large animals, like elephants.
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A procession formed, and the elephants led Roomba to the beach.
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Their fruit are delicious, and prized by elephants and people alike.
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The elephants are The Jungle Book's version of Jurassic Park's dinosaurs.
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With these higher margins for error, many fewer elephants turn white.
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Yet Gabon's elephants are still vanishing, as the new research shows.
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After retiring its elephants from its touring show, the Ringling Bros.
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The first three elephants represent Kat's father, mother and older brother.
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"Ants Among Elephants" is an arresting, affecting and ultimately enlightening memoir.
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Elephants photographed with the BeetleCam in South Luangwa National Park, Zambia.
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His country's elephants and other endangered mammals are worth more alive.
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Upon his death 31 elephants walked miles to mourn his passing.
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Tess is also mom to elephants Tucker, 13, and Tupelo, 7.
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"We work here to rehabilitate the elephants physically," Smart told Reuters.
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Feld owns the largest herd of Asian elephants in North America.
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Interactive experiences with elephants or tigers can be a red flag.
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Previous research showed captive elephants got four to six hours daily.
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A herd of elephants (Loxodonta africana) in the Maasai Mara, Kenya.
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And further up on your left, that's a herd of elephants.
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Treasure or trophy: Legal hunts for big elephants spark ferocious debate
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This would be analogous to retirement sanctuaries for elephants and chimpanzees.
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Beneath us, a herd of elephants is roaming across the plain.
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"Stay back!" shouts Vickery, as his team approaches the elephants, gingerly.
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He still employed elephants in the same manner, and was defeated.
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You're not seeing pink elephants ... that's just Justin Bieber's new grill.
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Shrine and other circuses also routinely feature elephants who carry tuberculosis.
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Play with elephants in Thailand —Anantara Golden Triangle Elephant Camp & Resort
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But parrots are supposed to, well, parrot — and elephants are not.
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Conservation group WWF estimates that only around 1,500 elephants are left.
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They will join around 30 other elephants already at the center.
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The scene illuminated how rapidly wild spaces for elephants are disappearing.
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Among the acts are aerial duets, Caribbean dance and discoing elephants.
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It's horrible for the elephants — walking on concrete, breathing bad air.
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We would go to see the show and feed the elephants.
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The researchers maintain that elephants can't survive without stronger conservation efforts.
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Feld sells $16 snow cones in plastic cups shaped like elephants.
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"They're ecological engineers in the way elephants are," Mr. Calvelli said.
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The park is a habitat for critically endangered tigers and elephants.
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These were the years when more than 700,4003 elephants were slaughtered.
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" On a post celebrating Elephant Day, another wrote: "Harambe loved elephants.
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Macron said Paris would not be leaving any "white elephants" behind.
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Only rich tourists are allowed to kill those elephants and lions.
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The park is home to half of the country's 25,000 elephants.
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Orange spots depicting the elephants with radio collars are closely tracked.
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By visiting with children, feeding baby elephants and cuddling orphans, Mrs.
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A herd of elephants escaped while the circus was on tour.
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Strangely, however, elephants aren't more prone to cancer than smaller animals.
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Mice, for instance, have sperm that's twice as long as elephants'.
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Elephants are remarkably empathic and intelligent, even capable of self-awareness.
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Gabon has the largest population of forest elephants in the world.
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Chimps, parrots, rooks and elephants have all succeeded at the task.
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Priestley & Ferraro mounted a show of 20 Chinese artworks featuring elephants.
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Lots and lots of elephants, each of them, as advertised, surprising.
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Asian elephants are considered endangered, with at most around 50,000 left.
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"For them to be accused of not protecting elephants is ludicrous."
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There have been parades of pigs, bears, horses, elephants and lions.
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Next year, the festival will stage "Aida" there; don't expect elephants.
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Time and again we're shown how curious and perceptive elephants are.
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Oh, and by the way, these aren&apost just any elephants.
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The elephant had been collared by the NGO Elephants Without Borders.
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Already hundreds of elephants have died due to lack of water.
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Today, no more than 350,000 savanna elephants remain and poaching continues.
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It was once used as an exercise ground for circus elephants.
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See elephants in northern Thailand up close in today's 360 video.
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It is a small necklace of carved ivory elephants and beads.
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They found two emaciated young elephants struggling inside the translocation compound.
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Michele admired a bright-green print featuring elephants, monkeys, and birds.
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Lucky travelers can see lions, elephants and zebras in the wild.
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So far, most have been elephants wandering off into the mist.
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In a fight among elephants, it's Venezuelans who stand to lose.
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When his remains were kept at the Grand Palace awaiting a royal cremation, 11 elephants decorated to look like white elephants crouched down before the palace walls in a symbolic gesture to honor the "people's king".
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"Two circus elephants saved from cold ... with buckets of vodka" Circus elephants are forced out of their trailer and into the -41 degree cold after a fire broke out, only to be saved by vodka shots.
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Dallas officials recently prohibited elephants with UniverSoul from performing because they had "tested reactive for tuberculosis," and Michigan's assistant state veterinarian cautioned that these elephants should not be on the road because of their TB status.
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In one study, scientists Lucy Bates, Richard Byrne and their colleagues were interested in looking at African elephants' memory for family members and the elephants' understanding of where the family members were located in relation to themselves.
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Harry flew to Malawi to take part in the 500 Elephants initiative, which involves relocating the elephants from the Liwonde and Majete wildlife reserves in southern Malawi to the Nkhotakota Wildlife Reserve, a 220-mile journey. 13.
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According to Edwin Wiek, founder of conservation NGO Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand, which rescues abused elephants, such deadly incidents almost exclusively involve male elephants being forced to work when they are in no state to do so.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Saving Elephants, Ennobling Albany" (editorial, May 10): Kudos to the students of the Pace Environmental Policy Clinic, Assemblywoman Amy Paulin and State Senator Terrence Murphy for their efforts on behalf of elephants.
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Roads, railways and fences, built as Africa develops, stop elephants moving around.
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By the time the elephants were removed, public opinion had shifted somewhat.
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PETA has plenty of horrifying videos showing trainers hitting elephants with them.
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From 2010 to 20143 Tanzania's population of elephants was reduced by 60%.
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"My trade will go extinct before elephants go extinct," he told Reuters.
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Alas, these tourists just wanted to see beautiful elephants in the wild.
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The little hyrax is more closely related to elephants than to rodents.
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The relationship between elephants and financial strain isn't seen only in poaching.
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Pregnant elephants eat particular leaves to induce the births of their calves.
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"Poaching for ivory is the biggest single threat to elephants," Jones said.
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After the ivory trade was banned in 1989, elephants' fortunes turned around.
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From January to October, 13 elephants were killed, the wildlife ministry said.
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They allow the elephants to roam free and form bonds among themselves.
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Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India.
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Below are Vitale's charming portraits of life among the elephants at Retetei.
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In a separate procession (pictured), respectful elephants dropped awkwardly to their knees.
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Hadid and Kloss aren't the only models trying to save the elephants.
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Apparently, some elephants are as intelligent as an eight-year-old child.
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Will Cersei's lack of elephants be the difference-maker in the end?
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Botswana is home to almost a third of Africa's elephants, around 130,000.
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Botswana is home to almost a third of Africa's elephants, around 130,000.
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Elephants are social animals who are capable of forming strong familial bonds.
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Normally, elephants at the sanctuary would form individual partnerships with one another.
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Elephants are natural, but so are the poachers driving them to extinction.
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Rather, the males develop noses that kind of look like elephants' trunks.
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For 30 years, Chelsea Clinton has wanted to save elephants from extinction.
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"These laws were established to protect the world's remaining elephants," she added.
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That's because residents have finally figured out what repels elephants: honey bees.
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Yet elephants with the disease are still routinely exposed to the public.
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Indeed, virtually every American circus with elephants has a history of tuberculosis.
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More than 30,000 elephants are killed by poachers every year in Africa.
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Authorities estimated that about 12,000 tusks were being burned, about 6,22 elephants.
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The sound of the swarm sends the elephants looking for food elsewhere.
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Over 100 elephants have died in the last eight years in Sabah.
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CITES first listed African elephants as a species of concern in 1977.
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Travelers can expect to see lions, elephants, cheetahs and herds of wildebeest.
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But unlike elephants, giraffes aren't protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
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This is also when people are allowed to interact with the elephants.
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The white elephants and political turmoil of the 210 Brazilian World Cup.
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In response to DNA damage, p53 proteins in elephants switch on LIF6.
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Somehow, though, elephants may outsmart the bees and figure out a workaround.
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Recently, he said, three Botswanans were killed by elephants in one week.
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The elephants were allowed to choose one bucket to open and eat.
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Without the pills, I could no more sleep than elephants can fly.
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Even in the United States, the pressure to protect elephants is political.
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Along with other animals, elephants have killed 139 community members since 113.
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Carfentanil is typically used as a sedative for large animals like elephants.
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"These elephants have to live in a risky area," Mr. Theerapat said.
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Globally, it's rhinos, elephants and gorillas that are among the most threatened.
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"This was a place where elephants usually roam around," Mr. Khayer said.
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Why, for example, are nearly all the tuskless elephants of Africa female?
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Elephants draw charisma from their wondrous size, but that brings vulnerability, too.
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But the elephants in Mr. Hazra's photo had not accidentally trampled anyone.
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Denmark is buying four circus elephants with the intent of retiring them.
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After a while, five female elephants descended the orange hillside to drink.
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You can watch bears feed, penguins swim, pandas tumble, and elephants slurp.
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It blends in with the ears and tails of the all elephants.
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"Traders in ivory actually want the extinction of elephants," Mr. Millar says.
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The elephants would be just a gray blur as they whizzed past.
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And that may put elephants at more risk than they already face.
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They once belonged on the faces of a least 100 slaughtered elephants.
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Today, it has one of the largest concentrations of elephants in Africa.
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"Dovima is between these old, wrinkled, heavy, enchained elephants," Ms. Tarr said.
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Two circus elephants in Russia made a run for it on Thursday.
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They do that with tourist dollars and, says Farawo, by selling elephants.
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Even baby elephants have been killed for their tiny stubs of ivory.
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Andrew Pike spotted elephants at the Hluhluwe--Imfolozi Park in South Africa.
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Researchers followed two free-roaming female elephants inside Botswana's Chobe National Park.
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The team next hopes to study male African elephants in the wild.
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He will wear a red, white and blue tie with Republican elephants.
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"We are just the grass that elephants trampled on during their fight."
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But across the continent, the outlook for savannah elephants is much worse.
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Here, some elephants are listed on Appendix II - now the largest volume - and all others are listed on Appendix I. Appendix II-listed elephants were subjected to a moratorium on future trade after the 2008 one-off sale.
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Sting in the tail Founded on the doctoral research of Oxford DPhil Lucy King, the Elephants and Bees Project, part of Save the Elephants, utilizes the knowledge that the world's largest land animal is extremely averse to bees.
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White elephants Still, the LLDC is pleased to have avoided "white elephants," unlike previous hosts such as Athens in 2004, where an $11 billion investment left rusting stadia, which became powerful symbols of waste during Greece's debt crisis.
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All in all, he maintains that the Florida facility is a safe and healthy environment for the circus's herd of 42 Asian elephants, and its breeding program is a way to preserve the Asian elephants in North America.
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Besides walking away with some seriously memorable shots after each time she's appeared in Sports Illustrated, Brinkley once took away something else: a passion for elephants, which led her to work with the organization Hands Off Our Elephants.
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"His sons shoot elephants, I don't know why I can't," said Bradley Martin of San Antonio, Texas, who is awaiting a response from FWS on two permits he submitted to hunt elephants in Zimbabwe in 2017 and 2018.
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But the elephants' connection to New York dates to 1883, when circus founder P. T. Barnum offered to test the Brooklyn Bridge, which had just opened, by having elephants walk across it, the website Ephemeral New York reported.
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"We have told communities living with elephants that there is value in conserving elephants for ecotourism and emphasizing that the value of a live elephant should be upheld at all costs," the government of Botswana said in a statement.
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A 2008 study calculated that Myanmar's logging elephants, which have a strict regimen of work and play, live twice as long as elephants kept in European zoos, a median age of 42 years compared with 19 for zoo animals.
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The program has been remarkably successful—between 2007 and 2014, around 96 elephants a year were killed for their ivory in southern Kenya alone; between 2014 and 2017, as Big Life's operations scaled up, only two elephants were lost.
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At a government hill station on the edge of palm plantations in rural Bengkulu, 12 tame Sumatran elephants — former circus performers — have been recruited into a "flying squadron" to chase wild elephants away from palm oil plantations or villages.
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For years, the elephants and their dance routines featured prominently in the shows.
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Other animals The elephants may be gone, but other animals will stay put.
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When they are moved, 42 Asian elephants will call the conservation center home.
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His building programme produced backhanders and white elephants as well as useful infrastructure.
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Hunters kill tens of thousands of wild elephants every year for their tusks.
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The question, then, is whether elephants and people can ever co-exist peacefully.
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And last year, it retired the elephants to a conservation center in Florida.
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Notably, the GEC only measured African savanna elephants, not all African elephant populations.
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Tusker elephants are known for having tusks so large, they touch the ground.
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Only 30 tuskers remain in Africa, according to wildlife charity Save the Elephants.
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Garamba was home to 11,000 elephants in 1995; by 2012 only 1,533 remained.
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The NhRP lawyers, it would seem, are hoping for better luck with elephants.
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Yet extra copies of p53 are not the elephants' only source of protection.
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And from that incident, I learned elephants had to be respected -- even feared.
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"Once it was got under control, the elephants rebounded quite quickly," he said.
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Poaching is a menace not just to Kenya's elephants, but to all Africa's.
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The five dead adult elephants were found in another part of the waterfall.
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The department said that 217,2250 elephants were killed for their ivory in 2000.
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According to WildAid, approximately 33,000 elephants are killed every year for their ivory.
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Everybody in Douglasville, we tigers, lions, bears, elephants, whatever you want to be.
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But other owners say they cannot bear the thought of selling their elephants.
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The same is happening in Nepal, where poachers target elephants, rhinos, and tigers.
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Sandwiched between Namibia and Zimbabwe, many of its elephants cross into their territories.
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Instead of shade, David is straight-up serving us lions, elephants, and cheetahs.
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Just the sound of the bees buzzing puts the elephants on the run.
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Elephants have junk in their trunk, and by junk I mean great possibilities.
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He spent the summer working with the 500 Elephants conservation initiative in Malawi.
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And they betray a central-planning mindset that has already produced white elephants.
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In the early 0003th century an estimated 3-5 million elephants roamed Africa.
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But the Nonhuman Rights Projects appears ready to fight for the elephants' autonomy.
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Rhinos, elephants, pangolin, lions — they are all still being killed in horrifying numbers.
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He worked most of his life to help protect the lives of Elephants.
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I hadn't seen many wild elephants before but I could feel their grief.
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The collars provide the team with valuable research which helps protect the elephants.
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L.A. plans to use only existing venues with zero risk of white elephants.
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Or never consider making it easier to slaughter elephants in the first place?
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Many elephants in traditional riding camps in Thailand have a similar life trajectory.
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But they also say, "When the elephants make love, the grass gets trampled."
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This park has no elephants, rangers dedicate themselves to monitoring the rhino population.
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Many scientists and conservationists also feel that protecting elephants is a moral imperative.
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All three are former circus elephants who once worked for the Ringling Bros.
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Elephants are highly intelligent creatures who, in general terms, have no natural predators.
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Thailand is home to three quarters of the elephants assessed in the study.
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Meanwhile, there are less than 1,000 elephants left in both Cambodia and Laos.
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KS: You may not remember, but you once showed me elephants in Africa.
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Some advocate for wildlife corridors, allowing elephants to move from place to place.
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And this lede: If elephants were astronauts, colonising Mars would be more feasible.
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Hunters kill tens of thousands of wild elephants every year for their tusks.
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When they are moved, 42 Asian elephants will call the Conservation Center home.
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Yet poachers have only ramped up their attacks on elephants in recent decades.
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She had reportedly smuggled the tusks of more than 350 elephants to Asia.
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Telkanranta agrees that sensitivity to pain is very similar between humans and elephants.
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The guides say they have to shout, or the elephants won't hear them.
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The herd at Tierpark zoo now numbers six African and seven Asian elephants.
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By the time the elephants reach Elephant Nature Park, most are in pieces.
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"Elephants are worth much more than ivory, or worth more alive," he says.
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The killing illustrates the peril that elephants face due to the ivory trade.
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I thought Chinko was good because I want my grandchildren to see elephants.
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No word yet on how they feel about users posing with elephants, though.
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" The software tagged the word elephant in yellow, helpfully adding: "Elephants are extinct.
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Yet there is a business model for keeping grand animals like elephants alive.
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Without the tourist-popular elephants and rhinos, tourism numbers will continue to drop.
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The elephants could smell the difference between piles of 150 versus 180 seeds.
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Hungry elephants looking for a midnight snack bump the wires, rattling the bees.
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It does not see its mission as settling disagreements about elephants and camels.
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The elephants can splash around and play in the mud, which they love.
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When that club folded after the 1003 season, Tsai joined the Brother Elephants.
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Tan and fit, he was known as the Golden Warrior on the Elephants.
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It is 20173,000 times as potent as morphine and used to tranquilize elephants.
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Look at what we are doing to elephants—these peaceful and majestic creatures.
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This baby is doing what baby elephants do...its called a pushing game.
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In Holiday in the Wild, Kate winds up in Africa working with elephants.
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Between 2010 and 2012 alone, poachers killed off 1003 percent of Africa's elephants.
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The FWS also gave circuses permission to mistreat endangered tigers and elephants, Rep.
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That money all flows back into breeding and caring for elephants, hunters argue.
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There are an estimated 82,000 elephants in Zimbabwe, down 20143 percent since 2005.
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Eventually, the elephants finished munching leaves and trooped to a gushing river nearby.
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In elephants, p53 also revs up the zombie gene, according to Lynch's study.
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Only elephants can swallow the fruits and defecate the equally large seeds whole.
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See more: The best duvet coversLet's address the elephants in the room first.
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Also on its client list are three elephants from Connecticut and four chimpanzees.
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While we only have one copy of the gene, elephants have 26 copies.
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Today, Asian elephants are endangered, with a population of fewer than 50,000 worldwide.
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The Asian elephants also sometimes slapped their trunks against the ground in fear.
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Those elephants should remember (sorry) to count their blessings at being left behind.
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Tusks from these elephants were subsequently transported through ports in Mombasa and Entebbe.
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If there were a Queen of Elephants, it would surely have been her.
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As with now, its source from elephants added a further link with death.
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There used to be 10 million elephants in Africa in the early 1900s.
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There are an estimated 19933,000 elephants in Zimbabwe, down 10 percent since 2005.
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Saudis saw another herd of white elephants on the stampede and shied away.
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Like many people, I have loved elephants since I was a small child.
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Conservationists point to the experience with elephants as a tragic and cautionary tale.
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Animals from the Central Park Zoo, including elephants and tigers, joined the procession.
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Her death leaves the zoo with only two elephants, and a looming question.
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Train accidents are just one of the many threats elephants in India face.
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"We believe that the elephants were trying to help the baby," he said.
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For starters, perhaps, elephants as well as horses in this ancient Egyptian setting?
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There are also lots of cute baby elephants (and a trunk hug scene)!
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Instead of shooting rocket propellent out the bottom, this one shoots elephants. Why?
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We can also calculate the speed at which these elephants must be ejected.
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And who wouldn't be happy playing with a pack of adorable baby elephants?
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We're learning that a lot of animals — dogs, elephants, other primates — have it.
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She will reportedly donate her earnings to the wildlife charity Elephants Without Borders.
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A dozen people had to assist in bringing the elephants back into custody.
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In Kenya, 93 elephants were killed in 2015, down from 384 in 2012.
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The circulation of antique ivory like yours doesn't threaten modern elephants, of course.
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They say they need money to repair artificial water holes to save elephants.
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Liwonde has lost about 0003 elephants and two rhinos since 2014 to poachers.
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Throughout Africa, elephants are in danger due to hunting and human population growth.
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She's sitting there and the elephants, right, and the clowns and all that.
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The forest is home to rare species including forest elephants and dwarf chimpanzees.
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Marauding elephants also regularly wander into villages in plantations throughout Sumatra, killing workers.
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Across Southern Africa, drones are used to protect elephants and rhinos from poaching.
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On festival days, "temple elephants" in gilded headdresses parade about in religious processions.
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The Tower of London once hosted live lions, bears, baboons, elephants, and more.
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Only tiny populations of bears and elephants hang on in small, vulnerable pockets.
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"The Nonhuman Rights Project is exploiting the Bronx Zoo elephants to advance their own failing cause in the courts as they put forth ludicrous legal arguments and lies about our elephants, facilities and staff," explained Breheny in a statement to Gothamist.
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In Chobe National Park in northern Botswana, where the number of elephants has risen to 130,000 from 30 in 1930, scientists say antelope species such as impala have benefited from the removal of trees by elephants as they favor shorter vegetation.
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Although there's no clear legal route to setting the Commerford Zoos' three elephants — Minnie, Beulah, and Karen — free, Schneider and his legal team have chosen to argue that elephants are advanced enough to be viewed as autonomous, free beings — like people.
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In "Underpass With Elephants (Lean Back, Your Life Is on Track)," shot last year, the English photographer Nick Brandt hung a life-size print of his portrait of elephants from a highway overpass in Nairobi, under which homeless glue sniffers congregate.
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In recent years, the erstwhile Charlotte has made elephants a mission, taking some 15 trips to Africa, helping serve the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, which rescues baby elephants orphaned by poaching, and releasing the unflinching documentary "Gardeners of Eden" in 2014.
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New understanding about how to handle Asian elephants, a global craving for ethical and sustainable travel, pressure from the rest of the world travel industry and the glare of negative publicity have driven improvement in the lives of Thailand's elephants.
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Things have improved: the total number of elephants killed in Kenya dropped from 384 in 2012 to 96 in 2015 and the birth rate for elephants in East Africa currently outpaces the rate at which the animals are being killed.
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By contrast, the fake pink elephants are literally pale imitations of the real thing.
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Yono and the Celestial Elephants is coming to the Nintendo Switch on Oct. 12.
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Bees are the only animals apart from humans that elephants seem truly afraid of.
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His confinement and isolation from other elephants also may have caused his awful moods.
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That collection, he admits, presents even more challenges than the census on savanna elephants.
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They're all excited to drink tea, ride elephants, and recharge after a hectic year.
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The answer, ultimately, is no: Strickland did not bring elephants, much to Cersei's disappointment.
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It is know for its elephants, black rhinoceroses and giraffes, among many other species.
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Mokaila says that recreating hunting zones will form buffer areas between communities and elephants.
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Zimbabwe made $2.7 million after selling more than 90 elephants to China and Dubai.
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If poaching rates continue, some fear African elephants will be extinct in 20 years.
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At the time, they still culled elephants in Kruger National Park to the east.
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This would spread the costs more widely and decrease the probability of white elephants.
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It's the country's biggest loss of wild elephants in a national park, officials said.
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We hired elephants and tents and Mariachi bands, and yet we didn't touch pay.
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He says that the smarter animals, like elephants, will be more interesting to watch.
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Elephants, rejoice: China is making a major effort to kick its nasty ivory habit.
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"Most of these elephants don't know what to do," Ms. Khyne U Mar said.
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But the dawn of democracy here has meant a reversal of fortune for elephants.
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Among his reasons, he noted that Washington's climate wasn't the best for elephants. 10.
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It features sculptures of mythical creatures and auspicious animals such as lions and elephants.
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But that has idled thousands of the elephants that toil in the logging industry.
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Conservation group WildAid estimated the tusks had probably been taken from about 720 elephants.
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On the elephants' side of the vandalized fence, space and food are becoming scarce.
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The elephant paradox Since 22012, African elephants have lost over 250% of their range.
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In some areas elephants are thriving due to successful population management and conservation techniques.
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It is known for its elephants, black rhinoceroses and giraffes, among many other species.
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Punctuating the narrative -- with disturbing frequency -- are images of elephants, shorn of their tusks.
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Kids throw tantrums at grocery stores, little elephants save theirs for dirt roads. 3.
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By contrast, in India, there are about 24,000 wild elephants and 3,500 in captivity.
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Melania really does look happier than we've ever seen her with those baby elephants.
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Each year, dozens of local elephants stomp through the lodge between October and December.
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Elephants didn't lie down during the day, but slept on their sides at night.
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Nearly 90 elephants were found dead near the Okavango Delta wildlife sanctuary in Botswana.
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In Africa, poachers kill tens of thousands of elephants a year for their tusks.
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We're sure you don't need to be told, but riding elephants is not good.
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The choreography of "baby elephants" learning to play with soccer balls heightened our empathy.
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Today, this figure is closer to $1,100 -- according to research by Save the Elephants.
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The team is working with a national park to reintroduce elephants into the wild.
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The elephants in Mozambique didn't have time to ponder whether Flake was an ally.
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After relocating elephants to the park, its population has swelled to more than 400.
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And Hannibal's use of elephants as part of his operations was revolutionary and innovative.
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But other experts say forcing these elephants to breed in captivity misses the point.
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" HE SAID, "IT'S A LITTLE BIT LIKE THE BLADE OF GRASS ON THE ELEPHANTS.
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While at the conservation, the elephants will be used as part of cancer research.
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Like other 8,400-pound Asian elephants, she eats that much on a daily basis.
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These elephants are basically the Kim Kardashian and Saint West of the animal kingdom.
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More than 300 people are killed every year by elephants, the forest department estimates.
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And he spent the summer saving elephants from the dangers of poaching in Africa.
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But experts aren't convinced it's all that beneficial for the elephants at these places.
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And he spent the summer saving elephants from the dangers of poaching in Africa.
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The dietary habits of elephants, for example, transform swaths of plant-life into dung.
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Elephants, it turns out, are frightened of loudly buzzing bees and their ferocious stings.
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It is a massive number of elephants that have died to produce this spectacle.
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My colleague Cao Li and I came to Ruzhou to hunt for white elephants.
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The statement praised her for helping deepen the world's understanding of elephants and rhinos.
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Don't leave without seeing the elephants, whom, if you're lucky, you can catch swimming.
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The elephants also fall prey to poachers or traps set up to catch animals.
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After logging was banned, tourism became a way to make money with the elephants.
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ELEPHANTS live in social groups of up to a dozen, led by a matriarch.
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New York and Illinois banned circus elephants, while voters in Florida banned greyhound racing.
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The Elephants, Tsai Feng-an's old team, were so badly damaged, they were sold.
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The dead elephants included a three-year old calf, said park chief Kanchit Srinoppawan.
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Botswana is reportedly considering lifting a years-long ban on the hunting of elephants.
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Elephants have empathy and social complexity that adapt to countermand threats to their survival.
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"Different ethnicities, different religions — we sell a lot of elephants now," Mr. Campanella noted.
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A circus without elephants might be more humane, but apparently it's far less enticing.
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The drug, a cousin of fentanyl, is used to tranquilize large animals like elephants.
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Years of catastrophic illegal poaching have pushed African elephants closer and closer to extinction.
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From tigers to elephants, dogs have been making friends with other animals for decades.
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And it weighs 340 tons -- about as heavy as 75 adult male African elephants.
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He was Reese Witherspoon's love interest in the romantic drama "Water for Elephants" (2011).
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The decision means Americans will be able to hunt elephants in Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Still, Zuckerberg appeared surprised when Georgia representative Buddy Carter asked him about the elephants.
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It is known for its elephants, black rhinos and giraffes, among many other species.
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Almost 90% of the park's elephants have been lost over the past 40 years.
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This camp works towards rehabilitating rescued elephants from circuses and human animal conflict zones.
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Every morning these Mahouts get their elephants for a bath in the nearby river.
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After two centuries, its elephants are officially saying goodbye to the circus life forever.
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For those who would like to see the elephants one more time, Ringling Bros.
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Every day in Africa, approximately 96 elephants are killed for their valuable ivory tusks.
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They were not, in fact, particularly mammoth, standing no taller than elephants of today.
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Around a bend stood several families totaling about 20503 elephants in a loose cluster.
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"Without taking care of the bigger picture, [raising elephants] would be futile," Angela said.
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" But the new policy, she said, "demonstrates the Chinese government's determination to save elephants.
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Those two elephants charged at Grumpy, who never recovered from the injuries and died.
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Elephants likely evolved other new genes that follow p53's orders, Dr. Lynch predicted.
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Trilobites The cracks in African elephants' skin help them keep cool and stay healthy.
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The gray, crenelated clumps look little like mountains, and more like elephants on fire.
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It's ticklish fun to watch baby elephants of any kind, including an airborne one.
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They include life-size depictions of elephants, above, rhinos, tigers, human figures and boats.
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Gradually, Thailand succeeded in reducing such practices and improving the lives of domesticated elephants.
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Both decisions generally apply to elephants hunted in either country between 2016 and 2018.
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"It's like a war between ants and elephants," said Xu Caiyuan, an activist investor.
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A single thimbleful of a neutron star weighs as much as several million elephants.
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In the original "Jumanji," an eerie board game brings elephants and rhinos to suburbia.
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The park's herd has 500 elephants, one of the largest surviving in Central Africa.
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Just as people are left- or right-handed, so elephants have a favored tusk.
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There is a real possibility that elephants will vanish in the not distant future.
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But don't expect to see tigers and elephants roaming 34th Street a century later.
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"ELEPHANTS EXCITE most children," says Timex Moalosi, the chief of Sankuyo, in northern Botswana.
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Sadly for the elephants, the number of collisions with trains seems to be rising.
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There have been parades of everything from pigs to bears, horses, elephants and lions.
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But the tuskless elephants of Africa show that nature can quickly alter the code.
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This is the worst such episode for the park's wild elephants in recent memory.
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Here is a plot of the vertical position of one of the ejected elephants.
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On that visit, he made portraits of elephants and their keepers, known as mahouts.
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That elephants still exist here at all comes as a shock to many experts.
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And we had to drive at speed straight at the elephants and brake suddenly.
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In the past decade, ivory poachers have slaughtered more than 0003,000 elephants and rhinos.
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Directly across from the villas lies Kasikili Island, home to elephants, lions and antelopes.
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Most of these species aren't as adorable as koalas or as magnificent as elephants.
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"I pursued a couple of elephants, but came up empty handed," he said then.
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Before that, elephants often crossed the short distances between islands in the island chain.
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As scientists learn more about elephants, public attitudes and policy have begun to change.
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In Malawi, poisoned pumpkins are rolled into the road for the elephants to eat.
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Originally designed as a tranquilizer for elephants, carfentanil is not approved for human use.
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For forest elephants, the population declined by an estimated 62% between 2002 and 2011.
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Elephants are exceptionally smart and empathetic animals, who are being unnecessarily slaughtered for sport.
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Young elephants eat their mothers' feces to acquire the microbes needed to digest food.
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Although the vegetation was lush, we saw elephants, hippos, giraffes and baboons beyond counting.
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The elephants were two of several at the zoo, and were among the youngest.
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According to newly released figures compiled from aerial footage, only about 350 elephants remain.
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According to newly released figures compiled from aerial footage, only about 22013 elephants remain.
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"But," he added, "we are also the biggest reason these two elephants are fighting."
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Mr. Gutomo then reflected on the village's bad luck of being visited by elephants.
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Though I do wonder why there are elephants on a box called Mama Bear.
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In Tanzania, helicopter pilot dies trying to protect elephants Priceless and worthless at the same time The tusks alone -- from about 8,000 elephants -- would be worth more than $105 million on the black market, according to wildlife trade expert Esmond Bradley Martin.
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The rather smiley elephants geared up for battle have led some to suggest this is a depiction of the story of the Maccabees in the second century BCE, since Alexander's successor dynasty, known as the Seleucids, were known to use elephants in battle.
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In part due to these efforts, the total number of elephants killed in Kenya dropped from 384 in 2012 to 96 in 2015 and the birth rate for elephants in East Africa currently outpaces the rate at which the animals are being killed.
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While most people use their summer vacation to kick back and rest, the royal conservationist is currently helping to transport 500 elephants across the southern African state of Malawi as part of the 500 Elephants initiative, a palace spokesperson confirms to PEOPLE.
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The elephants' ages range from 6 to 25 An outcry and a lawsuit Conservationists have scrambled to stop the relocation, saying moving the elephants from the natural setting of the game reserve to zoos half a world away is detrimental to their health.
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In conjunction with the NRDC, Kendler is working to get access to poaching data, hoping to create a predictive model that estimates how many elephants are killed in a particular day to estimate, day by day, when no elephants will be left.
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The new resolutions, passed by a vote of 87 in favor, 29 opposed and 25 abstaining, means zoos will not be able to import wild-caught African elephants to the U.S., China and a number of other countries beyond elephants' natural habitat.
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The new resolutions, passed by a vote of 2202 in favor, 2628 opposed and 28500 abstaining, means zoos will not be able to import wild-caught African elephants to the U.S., China and a number of other countries beyond elephants' natural habitat.
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"If you look at the Central and West African savannas, elephants have almost been exterminated — their populations are just being lost nonstop," said Chris Thouless, the director of the Elephant Crisis Fund at Save the Elephants, a nonprofit organization based in Kenya.
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By the end of this month, as more and more experts weigh in on the deep trauma suffered by captured elephants, a treaty governing international animal trade will halt the export of live elephants from Zimbabwe and other countries in Southern Africa.
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Chikadaya says when he first inspected the elephants, in Hwange, slated for export back in 2018, inspectors were told by park officials that the elephants would be moved within a month, but they were kept in a boma for nearly a year.
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