“Sumatra is an ideal habitat for the endangered Asian elephant, but it also has ideal growing conditions for coffee beans. Wild Asian elephants and coffee beans had become unlikely competitors in this rapidly shrinking wilderness.” - ABC News
“An 8,300-pound elephant and her newborn, who was 280 pounds at birth, are doing well at a breeding compound and retirement center for elephants in Hugo. Val was born to Whimpy after nearly 12 hours of labor on April 27 at the Endangered Ark Foundation. This is the third birth at the center, which was founded by D.R. Miller, whose family started the first Hugo-based circus.” - KOTV.com
“Veterinarians performed tests on one of the National Zoo’s Asian elephants yesterday in hopes of figuring out why she lost her appetite and grew lethargic last month.” - washingtonpost.com
“When the poachers came into Zambia’s Luangwa National Park, they were deadly effective and completely merciless. With their AK-47s and meat racks and tusk carriers to haul ivory off the savanna, they slaughtered 93 percent of the park’s once thriving elephant population.” - On Point
“Few people have visited a zoo without being intrigued by elephants, their impressive size, their curious behaviors and the familiar intelligence in their eyes. But the conditions under which we hold elephants are killing them, as Calle’s death last month at the San Francisco Zoo should remind us.” - SFGate
“Baby louie celebrates a milestone this week. On Thursday, the baby elephant at the Toledo Zoo will be six months old. It is hard for a baby elephant born in captivity to survive its first year so zoo officials are happy.” - WTOL
