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Tragic And Mysterious Elephant Burial Ritual Witnessed by Scientists
Asian elephants loudly mourn and bury their dead calves, according to a study by Indian scientists that details animal behaviour reminiscent of human funeral rites.
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Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off
Botswana’s government is yet to test the remains of the dead animals in what has been described as a ‘conservation disaster’
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Watch: Elephants Rescue Their Baby From a Pool
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One of Africa's Last Great Tusker Elephants Was Killed by Poachers
One of Kenya's last great tusker elephants was reportedly shot and killed by poachers. During a routine flyover on January 4 by the conservation group Tsavo Trust in southern Kenya, the body of a famous, roughly 50-year-old African elephant known as Satao II was discovered, though news of his death was only announced Monday. While the cause of death has not been confirmed, conservationists believe he was killed by a poisoned arrow while feeding in the eastern region of the park. The area is known as a "poaching hot spot."
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Mysteries of elephant sleep revealed
Wild African elephants sleep for the shortest time of any mammal, according to a study. Scientists tracked two elephants in Botswana to find out more about the animals' natural sleep patterns. Elephants in zoos sleep for four to six hours a day, but in their natural surroundings the elephants rested for only two hours, mainly at night. The elephants, both matriarchs of the herd, sometimes stayed awake for several days.
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“Ben” the elephant seeks help from safari lodge after being shot by poachers
Ben, an injured bull elephant - thought to be 30-years-old - gave staffers at the Bumi Hills Safari Lodge in Kariba, Zimbabwe the surprise of their lives when he appeared to ask for help.
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Poaching Leaves Elephant Daughters in Charge
Poaching has wiped out scores of pachyderms and their matriarchs, prompting researchers to study elephants more closely to monitor the orphans and the complex social ties within the family networks.
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World governments urge end to domestic ivory markets
In a bid to stop the killing of elephants for their tusks, world governments voted at a major conservation conference to urge the closure of all domestic ivory markets. After fierce debate -- including opposition from governments like Namibia and Japan -- the motion was adopted on the final day of the International Union for Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress, a 10-day meeting that drew 9,000 people to Honolulu, Hawaii this month.
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Tories’ failure to halt ivory trade ‘risks extinction of elephants’
The UK is putting elephants at risk of extinction through its broken promises on the ivory trade, according to campaigners. Before the last election, the Conservative party pledged to shut down the UK’s domestic ivory market: at the time 30,000 elephants a year were being slaughtered for their tusks. But no action has been taken. While bans on the international trade in ivory exist, a failure to observe similar measures at a national level is being exploited by criminal gangs who smuggle ivory into the UK, where it can be passed off as antique.
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African Wildlife: Darkness Falls
Today, wildlife experts speak of an “elephant holocaust.” The regions of Africa that have suffered most from poaching are those steeped in conflict, where it is too dangerous for conservationists to work. Robert Ross’s new book of photographs of the African Selous reserve brings us into a fast disappearing world and keep us there.
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Study: Asian elephant society is egalitarian
New research reveals Asian elephant societies to be less hierarchical than their African relatives. In Africa, elephant societies are characterized by matriarchal leadership and a clear pecking order. Many scientists believed Asian elephants organized and interacted in similar ways. But when a team scientists lead by biologists from Colorado State University surveyed Asian elephant societies, they observed less than a third as many instances of dominance and deferment behavior -- not enough to establish any clear hierarchical patterns among individuals.
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Elephant whose living conditions inspired protests dies at 69
Hanoko, which means “flower child,” lived almost her entire life at Tokyo’s Inokashira Park Zoo. By Christopher Brennan. (May 26)
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