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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...

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How 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...

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Baby Elephant Tries to Wake Dog

. . . and a bear who's a bit more polite than the baby elephant:

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Running 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...

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They’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...

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Seattle 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...

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Holiday 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...

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Elephant 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...

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Surprise: 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!...

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Happy 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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