“It seems elephants and tigers and clown cars just don’t cut it anymore. (Oh, my.) Rap music, video screens and extreme acrobatic action are blowing the top off the big top at the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus these days.” - San Jose Mercury News

” The three animals - Taj, an Asian elephant; Terry, an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin; and Buzz, an endangered smalltooth sawfish - aren’t the superstars at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo. But they are unusual. Animals held in captivity often die younger than they would in the wild, but these hold impressive longevity records.” - San Jose Mercury News

“Officials say a baby elephant at San Diego’s Wild Animal Park recently diagnosed with an antibiotic-resistant staph infection was euthanized because of multiple health problems.” - San Jose Mercury News -

“Satellite tracking of pygmy elephants has found that the endangered animals?unique to Borneo island?are under threat due to logging and commercial plantations encroaching on their habitat, conservationists said Thursday.” - San Jose Mercury News