“Among the sufferers in Ivory Coast’s civil war have been the elephants which originally gave the country its name.” - All Headline News
“Agriculture minister K. Sreenivasa Gowda truly had an elephantine problem in his hands on Saturday. A rampaging pachyderm got into his house, behind Shivananda Circle, and damaged the garden and a door.” - The Times of India
It’s a cloudless July afternoon in Etosha National Park in northern Namibia, and ecologist Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell is scanning the horizon for elephants. “It’s so fantastic here,” she says. “We’re constantly seeing elephants, rhinos, zebras, ostriches–it’s the Garden of Eden.” - EurekAlert
“A necropsy has shown that Bella, the baby elephant euthanized at the Houston Zoo in April, had an abscess in the bone.” - KLTV 7
“A research associate in the Stanford University School of Medicine, O’Connell-Rodwell has come to one of Africa’s premiere wildlife sanctuaries to explore the mysterious and complex world of elephant communication. She and her colleagues are part of a scientific revolution that began nearly two decades ago with the stunning revelation that elephants communicate over long distances using low-pitched sounds that are barely audible to humans.” - PhysOrg
“Kudos for John Van Doorn’s excellent commentary detailing the harsh reality experienced by Wankie the elephant and her unfortunate predecessors (”Elephants start dying when the gates close,” May 9). Sadly, recent tragic events at the San Diego Zoo reveal a more systemic problem with the handling, care and confinement of elephants at zoos that is even more bleak.” - North County Times
“Veterinarians have discovered the reason a 36-year-old African elephant collapsed on its way to Hogle Zoo.” - KSL News
“Western Plains Zoo has adopted its second elephant in a week to make way for five Asian elephants expected to take up residence at Taronga Zoo later this year.” - dubbo.yourguide
“Lincoln Park Zoo officials said Wankie the African elephant may have died of a mycobacterial infection in her lungs.” - SignOnSanDiego.com
“Wildlife guide Jayaram Harsha heaves a heavy sigh as he talks about his recent work counting male elephants in southern India. The numbers are down and, he fears, may one day be out.
?It is alarming,? says Harsha, who says poachers who continue to kill elephants for their ivory tusks may have decimated the population, something which will be determined by the largest ever census of India?s Asian elephant population which began recently.
Harsha, one of hundreds of census volunteers, found that of the 42 elephants he sighted in a sanctuary in southern Karnataka state only four were males, including a calf.” - Gulf Times Newspaper
” There, at around 6:30 p.m., they found an elephant lumbering and prancing for the delight of 400 to 500 people as circus music played through loudspeakers, police Sgt. Cliff Weeks said. Parked in the vicinity were roughly 50 to 70 cars, a tractor-trailer truck, a dozen school buses and a Kiryas Joel fire truck, Weeks said.” - Record Online
“The primary data of elephant census by the forest department has indicated a dwindling pachyderm population in the Singhbhum elephant reserve covering six forest divisions.” - The Telegraph
“The head of Sydney’s Taronga Zoo has rejected allegations a new elephant enclosure will not be appropriate for breeding the endangered animal.” - ABC News Online
“Elephants are known to roam free in Africa and Asia, but many Tennesseans are unaware that elephants also have a place to live in the “wild” right here in the Volunteer State.” - WBIR-TV, Knoxville, TN
“The elephants at the LA Zoo have always been popular with the public. But now the exhibit could be shut down if Antonio Villaraigosa is elected mayor, NBC4’s Doug Kriegel reported.” - NBC 4
