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“Scientists have studied infrasound communication among whales and, more recently, land animals including giraffes, rhinos and elephants. Katy Payne, a Cornell University bioacoustics researcher, recently described what she observed among a group of elephants in Central Africa.” - SF Gate

“Opposing the tribals’ traditional rights are various nature conservation societies and voluntary groups that want indigenous people out of the forests in the interests of conserving the elephants and the forest ecosystem. “But the tribal people have at least as good a right as elephants to live in the forests,” has been Janu’s answer to the conservationists. ” - Asia Times

“An enraged elephant ripped off a young boy’s leg and trampled him to death near Manyeleti game reserve in Limpopo.” - News24.com

I can’t even visualize an elephant polo tournament. - Daily News

“The business of selling exotic and endangered animals has escalated from an underground network of backyard deals into a multibillion-dollar industry in which chimpanzees can be ordered over the Internet. ” - SF Gate

The article briefly mentions elephants.

“Elephants communicate with one another in a number of ways, including sound, sight, touch, and scent. But it is the noises they make?a repertoire of rumbles, roars, trumpets, bellows, cries, screams, and snorts that spans almost ten octaves, including sounds that humans cannot hear?that scientists find the most challenging to comprehend. ” - National Geographic News

“Poole has found that the elephants use more than 70 kinds of vocal sounds and 160 different visual and tactile signals, expressions, and gestures in their day-to-day interactions.” - National Geographic News

“Time is running out for Swaziland to sell eleven ”orphaned” elephants to zoos in the United States, even if the sale means incurring the wrath of powerful animal rights organisations.” - Inter Press Service News Agency

Experiences during a month long African safari - iafrica.com

“An elephant trampled four people to death in West Bengal this week before escaping into a jungle, a police official said.” - Planet Ark

“The biggest challenge was making sure the keepers could get to the animals. This meant not just plowing the walkways around the zoo, but digging small paths that lead to each animal’s building and even inside. It took Sarro an hour to dig his way to the elephants Monday.” - Sunspot

“He is a Shepherd of a different kind. For, he has taken care of tigers, elephants and rhinos. Well, the list goes on. David Shepherd is primarily a wildlife painter and renowned conservationist from UK. He has been awarded the title of the Order of British Empire and is the fellow of prestigious art societies. Newsline caught up with Shepherd, a major force behind the ?Project Tiger?, during his recent visit. ” - Express India

“The Popa Falls is the centrepiece of the Caprivi Game Park, which is scheduled to become the Bwabwata National Park, and provides habitat to several herds of hippos and many elephants and other wildlife that come to the river for water and vegetation,” IRN said.” - The Star

“Officials estimate that more than 700,000 pills are smuggled into Thailand every year, mostly through the Golden Triangle from Myanmar. They permeate society, from campuses to offices to villages, even to working elephants.” - The New York Times

“Faced with this, University of Guelph zoologist Paul Hebert has come up with a different way of classifying animals — something he calls “DNA bar codes.” What he does is look for a standard gene or genes and measures genetic differences between creatures. He has already bar-coded 200 known species of moths and found that 2 or 3 per cent worth of genetic variation translates into what traditional taxonomists call a species. For example, varieties of African elephants are as genetically different from one another as they are from the supposed other true elephant species — the Indian elephant.” - The Globe and Mail