“Super-hot chilli is in use in remote northeast India to keep marauding elephants from destroying homes and crops and killing people in villages close to their habitat.” - Pravda.Ru

“A 29-year-old female elephant who lost most of her left foot when she stepped on a land mine three years ago has been put to sleep because of deteriorating health, a statement said Wednesday.” - Pravda.Ru

“Some 40 elephants helped to raise funds for charity Saturday by running races, taking part in a tug-of-war, playing polo and dancing to the rhythm of traditional drums. Mahouts straddled atop the hulking pachyderms maneuvered their animals draped in bright colored cloths despite the scorching tropical heat through a lively game of polo amid loud cheers from the boisterous crowd, the majority of whom were children.” - Pravda.Ru

“Almost all of us like elephants. But do you know that they are cleverer than humans? As strange as it may sound, it is so, and here is why” - PRAVDA

“English scientists ventured to challenge their world famous country-fellow Charles Darwin. Cambridge University scientists cast doubts on the hypothesis, which says that a human being originated from an ape-like ancestor. Our common ancestor is rather strange-looking, and it does not look like a human being at all. It is an anteater.” The researchers compared the chromosomes of a human being, an ant-eater and African and Asian elephants and found that they all share common chromosomes but that humans are closer to the ground pig than any of the other animals. - Pravda