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Wild elephant saved in dramatic rescue
Officials in the Indian state of Uttarakhand have saved a wild elephant from drowning in the Ganges river. Forest guards at Rajaji Tiger Reserve near Rishikesh found the elephant stuck at one of the barrages on the river early on Thursday. They diverted water to reduce the river level, allowing the male elephant to swim to safety.
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Elephant caught 'smoking' on camera leaves scientists baffled
Scientists have been left baffled by a wild elephant caught on camera blowing out plumes of smoke while consuming smouldering lumps of charcoal. Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) filmed the female elephant exhibiting the unusual behaviour at Nagahrole National Park in India. In the video, the mammal can been seen picking up lumps of charcoal with its trunk, placing the coal in its mouth, and exhaling a large cloud of smoke.
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Elephant 'smoking' footage baffles experts
Animal in India may have been trying to ingest wood charcoal and blowing away the ash
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Battle to save Africa’s elephants is gaining some ground
The elephant staggered and keeled over in the tall grass in southern Tanzania, where some of the world's worst poaching has happened. It wasn't a killer who targeted her but a conservation official, immobilizing her with a dart containing drugs. Soon she was snoring loudly, and they propped open her trunk with a twig to help her breathe. They slid a 26-pound GPS tracking collar around the rough skin of her neck and injected an antidote, bringing her back to her feet. After inspecting the contraption with her trunk, she ambled back to her family herd.
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The sorry lives of India's captive elephants
India's southern state of Kerala has had a long tradition of using elephants for religious celebrations and parades. The pomp, however, belies the cruel conditions under which these gentle giants live.
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Don't move! Tourists freeze as elephants grab a drink from swimming pool
A casual chill by the pool for a couple of tourists in South Africa's Kruger National Park became an unexpected up-close moment with nature. The pair were filmed frozen to their sunbeds as three wild elephants popped by for a drink from the swimming pool. Another couple made the recording and told Newsflare it was one of the "most amusing sights we have seen in a long time".
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Elephants rarely get cancer thanks to 'zombie gene,' study finds
Less than 5 percent of elephants die from cancer, and researchers may have finally figured out why. According to a study from The University of Chicago, elephants produce "zombie genes" that can help protect the animal from cancer. Here's how it works: Humans and other animals carry one copy of a "master tumor suppressor" gene. Elephants have 20 copies. Scientists found that gene can trigger a "zombie gene" to come back to life with a new purpose: killing cells in damaged DNA.
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Elephants rarely get cancer. Here's why this matters to humans
You'd think elephants would be getting cancer left and right, but they have evolved resistance. They're being studied for clues about how to treat cancer in humans.
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Clair de Lune for Anpam
Paul Barton
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87 Elephants Found Dead Near Botswana Sanctuary
A report attributed the killings to a “poaching frenzy”
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At last, some good news for the African elephant
WITH massive tusks that touched the ground, Satao towered over the rest of his herd. One of the last great “tuskers”, the beast estimated to be around 50 years old was heralded as Kenya’s biggest, oldest, and arguably most iconic elephant. Tourists from around the world would flock to see Satao in his prime. Yet his celebrity status, and the added protection it afforded him, was not enough to save Kenya’s most beloved bull elephant.
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Elephants are evolving to lose their tusks
The oldest elephants wandering Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park bear the indelible markings of the civil war that gripped the country for 15 years: Many are tuskless. They’re the lone survivors of a conflict that killed about 90 percent of these beleaguered animals, slaughtered for ivory to finance weapons and for meat to feed the fighters.
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Under poaching pressure, elephants are evolving to lose their tusks
In Mozambique, researchers are racing to understand the genetics of elephants born without tusks—and the consequences of the trait.
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It’s now illegal to use elephants in traveling circuses in New Jersey
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed “Nosey’s Law” on Friday, making it illegal to use wild and exotic animals, such as elephants, in traveling animal acts like circuses and carnivals. The law, named after a 36-year-old African elephant that suffered abuse during its time with a traveling circus, passed the New Jersey Senate with a 36-0 vote, and the state Assembly with a 71-3 vote, last month.
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Extinct mammoths could be given protected status in bid to save elephants
Extinct mammoths could be given protected status in bid to save elephants
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Elephants are evolving to be tuskless after decades of poaching pressure
More than half of female elephants are being born without tusks
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Chinese 'Ivory Queen' jailed in Tanzania
Tanzania has sentenced Yang Fenglan, a Chinese businesswoman nicknamed the "Ivory Queen", to 15 years in jail for smuggling hundreds of elephant tusks. Yang was accused of operating one of Africa's biggest ivory-smuggling rings, responsible for smuggling $2.5m (£1.9m) worth of tusks from some 400 elephants. Two Tanzanian men were also found guilty of involvement in the ring. Ivory poaching is said to have caused a 20% decline in the population of African elephants in the last decade.
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Botswana mulls turning elephants into pet food
Botswana should lift its four-year ban on big game hunting and also allow the canning of elephant meat for pet food, Cabinet ministers in the southern African nation have recommended. Botswana, home to nearly 130,000 elephants, is one of the most popular tourist destinations for wildlife lovers who want to glimpse the animals. But tension over the elephant population has grown, with some arguing they damage crops.
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Rangers free 6 trapped baby elephants in Thailand
Rangers at a national park in northeastern Thailand have rescued six baby elephants that were trapped in a mud pit. Park officials said the elephants were unable to climb up the pit’s slippery banks. Rescuers took five hours on Thursday to dig a path for them to clamber out. A video taken by rangers at Thap Lan National Park in Nakhon Ratchasima province shows the baby elephants climbing one by one from the muddy ditch.
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Big game hunter who has killed more than 5,000 elephants says he is 'totally unrepentant' after being named in investigation into plummeting numbers – and admits killing 60 lions, 50 hippos, and 40 leopards
An African hunter who claims to have killed more than 5,000 elephants says he is 'totally unrepentant' about the deaths he has caused. Ron Thomson, 77, who worked in Africa's national parks for almost six decades, claims he was not hunting the animals for pure sport but was managing population that would otherwise have got out of control.
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