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“Yes, Chawang has a new girlfriend, and zookeepers are wasting no time in getting the pair amorous.” - The Straits Times

“One of the elephants in captivity from Malaysia and Sri Lanka plays a trick on her keeper during an elephant show on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 in Singapore.” - Yahoo! News Photos

“An Asian Elephant greets visitors during an animal show at the Singapore Zoo” - Yahoo! News Photos

“Vets on Wednesday fitted Asian elephants Tun and Jamilah with specially-made protective boots made from a durable, breathable fabric in a bid to relieve their chronic foot lesions.” - Reuters.com

” There was a seizure in 2002 in Singapore of 6,500 kilograms of ivory � 531 tusks, many of which were huge. The authorities knew that poachers were carrying tusks across Zambia and into Malawi. One day they got a tip it was on the move. They went on a truck and then travelled by ship to Singapore. Hong Kong authorities got to the dock just hours before they arrived. The strong smell suggested that at least some of the ivory was fresh. The ivory was high quality and going to an infrastructure that could get it to wealthy buyers. This is not your small-time village poacher. Everyone thought the ivory had come from multiple locations.” - The Hindu

“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

“Brush fires that have sent a gray haze over neighboring Malaysia and Singapore scattered rare elephants in an Indonesian forest Tuesday, as the government prepared to have soldiers fight the blazes, officials said.” - International Herald Tribune

“Ailing animals at Singapore Zoo are having injuries and illness treated with alternative medicines including acupuncture. A recent patient is Tun, a 15-year-old female elephant of 2800 kilogrammes.” - Scoop: