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If you were an elephant …
… the world would be a brighter, smellier, noisier place – and you would be a better, wiser, kinder person. Charles Foster, the author of Being a Beast explains all.
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Why Did Medieval Artists Give Elephants Trunks That Look Like Trumpets?
Maybe not just because they didn't know what elephants looked like.
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Elephants pass test with ‘profound implications’ for their intelligence
Elephants have passed a test of intelligence which scientists say has “profound” implications for our understanding of their mental capabilities. They were found to be capable of performing a task that showed they have a level of self-understanding that is rare in the animal world and defeats humans until they are about two years old. Elephants have already shown they can recognise themselves in a mirror, something that is thought to be relatively rare among animals.
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Watch: Elephants Rescue Their Baby From a Pool
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How elephants avoid cancer
Why elephants do not get cancer is a famous conundrum that was posed — in a different form — by epidemiologist Richard Peto of the University of Oxford, UK, in the 1970s3. Peto noted that, in general, there is little relationship between cancer rates and the body size or age of animals. That is surprising: the cells of large-bodied or older animals should have divided many more times than those of smaller or younger ones, so should possess more random mutations predisposing them to cancer.
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The dark side of wildlife tourism: thousands of Asian elephants held in cruel conditions
Thousands of elephants being used for entertainment across Asia are kept in cruel, abusive conditions fuelled by the growing tourism industry, World Animal Protection has found. Three out of four elephants surveyed in south-east Asia’s popular tourist destinations are living in harsh conditions where they are being used for rides, with mostly steel or wooden saddles, and tied in chains less than three metres long.
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A shipment of ivory worth $9 million has been seized in Hong Kong
Hong Kong customs officials have announced their largest-ever seizure of ivory, a haul of “about 7,200 kilograms,” or 16,000 pounds. The shipment was hidden in a container labeled as fresh fish, but instead contained more than $9 million worth of ivory hidden under the seafood, the Hong Kong government reported.
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Elephant tramples and kills hunter trying to shoot it
An Argentinian man has been killed in Namibia after he was trampled by an elephant, local media report. The Namibia Press Agency said the hunter, identified as 46-year-old Jose Monzalvez, was killed on Saturday afternoon in a private wildlife area 70 kilometers (43 miles) northwest of the small town of Kalkfeld.
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Leading elephant conservationist shot dead in Tanzania
The head of an animal conservation NGO who had received numerous death threats has been shot and killed by an unknown gunman in Tanzania. Wayne Lotter, 51, was shot on Wednesday evening in the Masaki district of the city of Dar es Salaam. The wildlife conservationist was being driven from the airport to his hotel when his taxi was stopped by another vehicle. Two men, one armed with a gun opened his car door and shot him.
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Want to ‘Speak’ Elephant? Now You Can
A new website helps you translate human words and emotions into a form of elephant communication. By Casey Smith. (Aug. 11, 2017)
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Exclusive: footage shows young elephants being captured in Zimbabwe for Chinese zoos
The Guardian has been given exclusive footage which shows the capture of young, wild elephants in Zimbabwe in preparation, it is believed, for their legal sale to Chinese zoos. In the early morning of 8 August, five elephants were caught in Hwange national park by officials at Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks).
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Victory! India Bans the Use of Wild Animals in Circuses
Great news! India has banned the use of all wild animals in circuses! The Central Zoo Authority (CZA) of the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEFCC) has canceled the recognition of all circuses in the country that force wild animals to perform tricks in the name of entertainment. This happened after year-long inspections in which extreme animal cruelty was reported.
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'Hell is Here' for burning elephants in award-winning photo
An image of two elephants fleeing a mob that set them on fire in eastern India highlights the ongoing human-elephant conflicts in the region. The photograph, named “Hell is Here,” was taken by Biplab Hazra and was named the winner of the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards 2017. The image shows a calf on fire as it and an adult elephant run for their lives — as a crowd of "jeering" people throw "flaming tar balls" and firecrackers at the pair.
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Since Mali Formed A Brigade To Protect Its Elephants 9 Months Ago, Not A Single Elephant Has Been Lost To Poachers
In January 2016, Susan Canney, director of the Mali Elephant Project, predicted all of Mali's elephants would be killed within three years if poaching continued unabated. "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. "I am extremely worried."
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A Zombie Gene Protects Elephants From Cancer
Elephants and other large animals have a lower incidence of cancer than would be expected statistically, suggesting that they have evolved ways to protect themselves against the disease. A new study reveals how elephants do it: An old gene that was no longer functional was recycled from the vast “genome junkyard” to increase the sensitivity of elephant cells to DNA damage, enabling them to cull potentially cancerous cells early.
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Effervescing Elephant
Syd Barrett
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China Shuts Down Its Legal Ivory Trade
As of December 31, China’s legal, government-sanctioned ivory trade will come to a close. All of the country’s licensed ivory carving factories and retailers will be shuttered in accordance with a landmark 2015 announcement from Chinese President Xi Jinping and then U.S. President Barack Obama. China and the U.S. both agreed to “near-complete” ivory bans, which prohibit the buying and selling of all but a limited number of antiques and a few other items. The U.S.’s ivory ban went into effect in June 2016. China’s goes into effect December 31, 2017.
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With a beehive fence, Kerala’s farmers tell marauding elephants to buzz off
A year ago, no one in Mayilattumpara could sleep soundly at night. Residents of the village in the foothills of Thrissur district, in southwest India's Kerala state, feared invasions by wild elephants. The animals, reacting to the loss of their forest habitat and a scarcity of food, frequently invaded the farmland around the village, trampling on plants and crops and destroying incomes.
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African elephants are migrating to safety—and telling each other how to get there
It's just one survival mechanism elephants have developed in response to poaching, conflict, urbanization, and other pressures.
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Elephants Are Strangely Resistant to Cancer - And We May Finally Know Why
A research team peering into the relatively underexplored "junk" DNA of mammals has found more clues as to elephants' extraordinary ability to evade cancer - and determined that the genes responsible for mitigating damage in elephant cells can also b
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