This Time It’s for Real?
Toka checks out her travel crate After more than two years of false starts, this time, everyone seems agreed that the three elephants at the Toronto Zoo are ready to pack their trunks and head to...
View ArticleHow Elephants Say Goodbye
Most of us have seen photos of videos of elephant herds gathering around one of their own who's passed away and for whom they're grieving. This one is especially poignant for how the elephant has her...
View ArticleBaby Elephant Tries to Wake Dog
. . . and a bear who's a bit more polite than the baby elephant:
View ArticleRunning Out of Patience
Her patience, it seems, finally ran out. Maybe it's because elephants never forget. And Patience had a lot of bad things to remember – dating back to when, as a baby, she was torn from her family in...
View ArticleThey’re on Their Way
Two trucks, three elephants, and a convoy of veterinarians, caregivers, police and other appropriate officials. After three years of petitions, arguments, agreements, disagreements, votes, flight...
View ArticleSeattle Zoo Investigates Itself
It's a dark tale of rape, incest, torture and cover-up: A female elephant artificially inseminated at least 112 times; a male elephant forced to breed with his own daughter; elephants beaten into...
View ArticleHoliday Gift for Elephant Music Lovers
Meet the Thai Elephant Orchestra. They're all retired elephants who spent their lives serving the timber industry of Thailand until logging was brought to an end in an effort to save what remained of...
View ArticleElephant Destroys House, Rescues Baby
On Monday night in India, an angry elephant walked into the village of Olgara from the forest and smashed a house to pieces. This kind of behavior is no longer unusual. As human population grows and...
View ArticleSurprise: Elephants Are Really Intelligent (Really!)
Why are we humans always surprised to learn that other animals (aka "animals") are "also" intelligent? Perhaps it's because we're not so bright ourselves when it comes to relating to nonhuman animals!...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Daphne Sheldrick
The original photo bomb? A baby elephant joins Daphne Sheldrick for tea in the early days of the Elephant Orphanage. At the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage in Kenya, nobody has ever used a bullhook...
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