“It’s one thing to give the dog a bath. Sometimes they don’t like it. But take an elephant, now, they love it. And, unlike a dog, they don’t shake off the water.” - QCTimes.com
” A Thai elephant that attracted worldwide attention when her foot was amputated after she stepped on a land mine has been fitted with a temporary prosthesis, a wildlife conservation worker said Sunday.” - FOXNews.com
“A first family of five elephants was relocated yesterday from this overcrowded reserve in Kenya’s coastal region. The five are among 400 elephants earmarked for relocation from the reserve, where they are being captured and winched into a crate for the 140-kilometre drive to a new home in Tsavo East National Park.” - The Globe and Mail
“Inside the grandstand you will find some beautiful paper. It’s gorgeous. And it’s made almost entirely from elephant poop.” - WCCO
“Once in danger of being wiped out by poachers, elephants have overrun a Kenyan coastal preserve. They’ve raided nearby farms and even attacked villagers, forcing wildlife authorities there to move about 400 of them to a bigger game park farther inland in Africa’s largest-ever elephant relocation.” - VOA News
“Salvaged first at the intersection of North Millbend Drive and Grogan’s Mill Road and recently spotted at the South County Chamber of Commerce’s Mad-Hatter’s Ball, this pink elephant statuette is turning up everywhere in South County.” - The Villager
” Final results from an autopsy show 7-year-old Asian elephant Ganesh died of a viral infection from a strain of herpes that is specific to elephants, said assistant Columbus Zoo and Aquarium director Don Winstel.” - ThisWeek Newspapers
“On Thursday, city officials heard testimony from an elephant expert on their proposed elephant ordinance. As CBS 2’s Mike Parker reports, it would change the way circuses come to town.” - CBS 2 Chicago WBBM-TV
” The 22-year-old bull elephant was tranquilized, bound with rope and loaded onto a truck for what should have been the start of an ambitious relocation operation.” - CNN.com
“Elephants and their keepers in the northern Indian city of Jaipur are to have a new home soon in a “hathi gaon”, a village exclusively for the pachyderms, it was reported.” - IOL
“The Kenya Wildlife Service will relocate 400 elephants to Kenya’s largest national park, from a smaller national reserve in the country’s south-east that has too many elephants, a spokesperson said on Monday.” - Mail & Guardian Online
“Police say the poachers resisted arrest after being discovered in the Mahoto reserve in Riau province.” - Radio Australia
“Cheetahs prowling Texas? Elephants roaming Oklahoma? You just might live to see it, if a bold new plan to save endangered species becomes reality.” - National geographic News
“Newly discovered pygmy elephants in Borneo are being outfitted with transmitters to allow orbiting satellites to track them as they migrate through dense rain forest mountains.” - Taipei Times
“A herd of stray elephants has gone on the rampage in the northern Zimbabwean resort town of Kariba.” - BBC NEWS
