“The Cleveland Metroparks Zoo’s three African elephants will dine on cake at 1 p.m. today in celebration of the zoo’s 100th year of caring for elephants.” - Cleveland Metro News
“Tropical Sky is giving away a complimentary elephant trek for two when you book seven nights at The Sarojin, a five-star boutique resort in Thailand. Sitting on the back of the beast, it’ll take you through Khao Lak and Lam Ru national park as you enjoy the spectacular jungle scenery and waterfalls.” - Lost Weekend
“The Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology (Cept) is planning a brand new house for Ashok and Roopa. Like their friends Ganesh, Raja, Seema, Danny and others, these two teenagers too will be proud owners of a sprawling one-acre estate soon.
” - The Times of India
“A two-year-old elephant calf, straggling behind its herd, was run over by an express train this afternoon on the railway tracks running through Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary.” - The Telegraph
“Two domesticated elephants turned roguish without warning and killed eight persons in Assam’s Cachar district as forest officials waited interminably for permission from the wildlife warden to shoot them.” - The Telegraph
“Three female elephants at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo will soon be living elsewhere due to a planned renovation of the pachyderm facility.” - Earth Times
“The tooth of a mastodon buried beneath Alaska’s permafrost for many thousands of years is yielding surprising clues about the history of elephants—and humans.” - National Geographic News
“Animal rights activists say that it’s cruel for the elderly star of the ring to appear in public, even to pose with children for photos. But others say that she needs people around her ” - The Observer
“Tamil Nadu Government would soon erect solar fencing along 500-km forest boundaries across the state to prevent straying of animals, particularly elephants and destroy of crops, Forest Minister, N Selvaraj has said.” - The Hindu
“Three female elephants at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo will soon be living elsewhere due to a planned renovation of the pachyderm facility. ” - United Press International
“A team of German, Swiss and U.S. scientists has announced the sequencing of the complete mitochondrial genome of the mastodon.” - ScienceDaily
“Our understanding of the history of the Proboscideans, which include all the modern elephants, is a bit of a mess. We’re not even entirely sure how many distinct species of elephants there are today, and the situation is even worse when we look to the past. The closest relatives of elephants that are still alive last shared an ancestor with them back when dinosaurs were around, and all of the extinct species except mammoths died out too long ago for most DNA sequencing to work.” - Ars Technica
“An elephant was found dead in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district near the Indo-Bhutan border on Tuesday, Forest officials said. ” - The Times of India
“Greek palaeontologists have discovered the tusks and fossilized remains of a 3-million-year-old mastodon, or extinct elephant, in northern Greece, reports said Tuesday.” - Monsters and Critics
“Even at 10 acres and $52 million, the Asian Tropics exhibit at the Denver Zoo won’t satisfy all the critics.” - The Denver Post
