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“Zoo keepers watch African elephant ‘Sweni’, as she paints a picture during a presentation for photographers at Wuppertal zoo June 6, 2008″ - Yahoo! News Photos

“The new 3,750-square-metre (40,000-square-feet) hangar has 42 stalls for large animals like the huge number of polo ponies and racehorses that pass through continental Europe’s biggest hub every year, or even for the odd rhino or elephant.” - AFP

“Indians might be squeamish about paper made from “elephant poo” — as the stamp on the sheets declares — but Shekhawat has found that it is a hit abroad. The paper is exported to Germany and the UK.” - The Telegraph

“An international team headed by European scientists has been able to clarify the lineage of modern elephants, thanks to improved techniques for extracting DNA from a tooth, dated between 50 000 and 130 000 thousand years old. In a new paper in the open access journal PLoS, Michael Hofreiter from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany and colleagues from Switzerland and the United States, described the sequencing of the complete mitochondrial genome of an extinct relative of living elephants, the mastodon (Mamut americanum), which diverged around 26 million years ago.” - European Research Headlines

“A German veterinarian is transforming the image of an Asian elephant from an attacker to a stud able to help raise the population of the endangered species, Singapore’s Night Safari said on Thursday. Dr Thomas Hildebrant, who heads Germany’s Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research’s Reproduction Management team, extracted semen samples from the 30-year-old bull elephant named Chawang on Wednesday.” - Earth Times

“Holiday leftovers aren’t just for humans. Elephant calf Thabo-Umasai at Germany’s Zoo Dresden joined camels, deer, and sheep in a traditional new-year feast of Christmas trees yesterday.” - National Geographic News

“Using DNA extracted from a woolly mammoth specimen recovered from permafrost in Siberia, a team of scientists from Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States determined the sequence of 5,024 base pairs of mitochondrial DNA. Although that represents only about a third of the animal�s total mitochondrial DNA, it was far beyond the previous record of 1,000 base pairs sequenced for a Pleistocene animal.” - The Columbus Dispatch

“Scotland could be in with a chance of winning a major trophy if they beat Germany - in the semi finals of an elephant polo tournament.” - Scotsman.com

“The Singapore Zoo’s most famous elephant headed to Germany to be part of a conservation programme at the Cologne Zoo, its former keepers said.” - Expatica

“Paleontologists in Germany have begun digging out an ancient, unknown, elephant-like animal from a sand pit.” - WIStv.com

“A travelling circus in Germany has been ordered to come back and clean up 50m3 of elephant dung after residents complained about the smell, police said on Friday.” - IOL