eleblog

“Another batch of baby elephants from the Ath Athuru Sevana (Elephant Transit Home) at Uda Walawe will be released to the Uda Walawe National Park on June 1. This is the fourth batch to be released and comprises of 7 females and 4 males ranging from age three and a half to four, Director General of the Wildlife Conservation Department H. M. B. C. Herath told the Daily News yesterday. ” - Daily News

“The baby skipped out into the open, lifting his fat little forelegs high in an elephantine prance. Undaunted by a phalanx of rolling cameras, he scooted back to mom for a quick snack, and trotted to the front of the enclosure to inspect his visitors. Apparently unimpressed, he stretched out on the floor and went to sleep.” - Toledo Blade

“Two Asian elephants were weighed at a zoo south of Boston by using a State Police scale.” - Capital News 9

“The Walt Disney World Resort’s animal care team welcomed the first African elephant calf to be born at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Theme Park Thursday night. ” - Orlando Business Journal

“An African elephant at the Indianapolis Zoo underwent surgery Wednesday morning for a blocked colon — a condition that officials said threatened the life of the 3-year-old. “The Indy Channel

“An elephant died in the custody of the forest department last night after remaining in a tranquilized state for the last few days at Bero, 30 kms from the Jharkhand capital. ” - NDTV.com

“Six months after the Delhi Tourism and Transport Development Corporation (DTTDC) announced its elephant and horse ride scheme for tourists at the India Gate, the Union Tourism Ministry has scrapped the plan. ” - Express India

“The elephant calf born last month at the Toledo Zoo is beginning to nurse, which is a major step in the development of a healthy relationship with its mother.” - Toledo Blade

“Despite the 14-year international boycott on ivory trade, the slaughtering of elephants for their tusks may be rife in KwaZulu-Natal.” - IOL

“No fable this. 62 and still growing, the world?s largest herd of captive elephants, is posing more than a mammoth problem for the Guruvayoor Devaswom: How does it maintain the herd of pachyderms that devotees have given as an offering to Lord Krishna? Or tougher still: How does it keep donor-devotees at bay?” - India Times

“Police are investigating the abduction of a pink plywood elephant from her village home.” - BBC News - Not a real elephant but still a news item about elephants.

“A woman sued the Los Angeles Zoo Wednesday in an effort to stop the impending breakup of two elephants who have been kept together at the zoo for 16 years.” - NBC4

“The zoo also could add more elephants and a South American or Asian exhibit moved to the top of a hill that once displayed North American animals. ” - Pittsburgh Live

“While there are moments of getting up close and personal with the animals, being at the Zoo Academy means work. It means chopping up dead mice to feed to the eagles, plucking dead blooms from azaleas or shoveling wheelbarrows full of elephant excrement. ” - Tennessean.com

“Six years after the international community banned ivory trade, poachers still pose a big threat to Uganda’s elephants. ” - Inter Press Service News Agency