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href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 13, 2010 Toledo BladeTwiggy, a 25-year-old African elephant, arrived at the zoo late Thursday after being confiscated by the US Department of Agriculture from a private circus ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 12, 2010 Daily American OnlineThe International Conservation Center is the first facility run by an AZA-accredited zoo with a strong emphasis on the African elephant. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 11, 2010 WANEThursday morning the US Department of Agriculture took an African elephant from her home in Miami County. The USDA took tigers and lions from the same ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 3, 2010 Spooftimes.com (satire)South Africa, drawing blood on Indian soil during their last visit, knows what it takes to win in India. Add Numero Uno Spot to this contest, ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 19, 2010 Los Angeles TimesThe alleged smuggling was discovered in November 2006 when authorities found four African elephant tusks in a shipment purported to be toys. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 6, 2010 Los Angeles TimesThey're closer genetically to the extinct woolly mammoth than to the African elephant. About 4000 Asian elephants are thought to exist in Thailand, ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 5, 2010 UPI.com5 (UPI) -- Officials at a zoo in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield, Ill., say they are seeking an elephant to serve as a companion to their African elephant, ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 1, 2010 Suburban Life PublicationsThey are looking to find a curious companion elephant to match with Joyce, the zoo's remaining African elephant. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 5, 2010 NatGeo News Watch (blog)The long-running global debate over the African elephant has focused on the benefits that income from ivory sales may bring to conservation and to local ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 8, 2010 In Utah This WeekNot to mention, the rarity of some of the things I get to see here -- how many people can say they got to spread the word about a baby African elephant ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 31, 2010 North County Times...(Photo by Jamie Scott Lytle - Staff Photographer) The San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park researchers are studying African elephant at the park where they have ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 2, 2010 PR Newswire (press release)The AERP has become recognized globally as an authority on the behavior of the African elephant. Amarula Cream Liqueur is also proactive in its approach to ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 27, 2010 Ashland Daily Tidings20, 2010 photo shows Wylie Malek, 10, feeding snacks to Tiki, an African elephant, at Wildlife Safari in Winston, Ore. Malek, who is autistic, ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 7, 2010 Global Voices Online (blog)Forum (KEF) to provide strategic information to a body of sympathetic African elephant range states called the African Elephant Coalition (AEC). ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 24, 2010 MLive.comIllustration by Velizar SimeonovskiThis sketch shows a Columbian mammoth, an African elephant, and an American mastodon (from back to front) ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 22, 2010 Mansfield News JournalThe fifth-graders are helping design a new African elephant habitat at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, while the sixth-graders are working with Cincinnati ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 22, 2010 Deseret NewsThis year's commemorative poster featuring Koolmees' watercolor of Hogle Zoo's baby African elephant, Zuri, is available for purchase at the door or online ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 20, 2010 The TennesseanThe course also passes by favorite habitats, including the African Elephant and Giraffe Savannahs, Alligator Cove and Bamboo Trail. Nashville Zoo will close ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 23, 2010 True/SlantIt centered on Babar's formative narrative, a tale in which the wild African elephant is taken captive, brought into civilization and groomed to be an ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 25, 2010 San Antonio Current (blog)...emblem,â€? the African elephant, writes James Workman in Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought. ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 9, 2010 AllAfrica.comEfforts to protect the African elephant have already secured the backing of 16 countries in the continent who are members of the African Elephant Coalition ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 5, 2010 Gawker...takes "very good care" of her husband (wipes his bottom — which looks like two African elephant ears rolled up and smooshed together — and everything). ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 31, 2010 School Library JournalEndangered features a wide variety of animals, from the familiar (giant panda, African elephant, Bengal tiger) to the lesser known (addax, dugong, ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Feb 2, 2010 PlaythingsAccording to a storybook that can be purchased with or without the toy, Norman is an African elephant adopted by a US zoo whose flatulence issues were ... href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="return false;" - Jan 25, 2010 大纪元...å?¦å°šå°¼äºšå’Œå°šæ¯”亚分别å†?度å?‘国际监控å?•ä½?æ??出å?ˆæ³•ä¹°å?–象牙的è¦?求å?Žï¼Œ17国组æˆ?的“é?žæ´²è±¡è?”盟â€?（Coalition for the African Elephant）代表é½?è?šå¸ƒé²?塞尔，试图寻求支æŒ?。 ... Anxious anticipation as elephant's pregnancy nears an end - 05 Aug 2009 Salt Lake TribuneNo African elephant has ever been born in Utah. The first and only Asian elephant birth in the state came in 1918 at Hogle's old Liberty Park location. Block Museum of Art to Show Robert Motherwell and Henry Moore ... - 05 Aug 2009 Art DailyIn the 1960s the artist became intrigued by the skull of an African elephant kept in the London garden of his friends Sir Julian and Lady Juliette Huxley. Bette and Kallie settling in - Jul 28, 2009 Philadelphia InquirerBaker said it would be used to increase successful reproduction of the African elephant population in North America and develop a national training program Vision Quest Ranch is true stay on wild side - Jul 31, 2009 San Jose Mercury NewsOn my one and only morning at Vision Quest Ranch, I broke bread with Mailika, a 4500-pound African elephant who consumes 150 pounds of food a day despite Elephant on the moon - Jul 26, 2009 TheReporter.comThree years ago, he got a permit to bag an African elephant to add to his collection; a hippo, I hear. How can they do that? That's another story. Tragic end at the zoo - Jul 9, 2009 Memphis Commercial AppealFor 22 months, she carried the promise of a rare African elephant captivity birth within her. Wednesday morning the celebration came to an end when the calf Is that an elephant out walking? - Jul 29, 2009 Wairarapa Times AgeHeads were turned for miles as Jumbo, the friendly 35-year-old African elephant in town with the Loritz Circus's Out Of Africa show, shuffled over to the Wikipedia-style website to record every species on Earth - Jul 30, 2009 guardian.co.ukAlthough we know that the African elephant and Indian elephant are different species, and likewise the house sparrow is a different species from the tree Kenyan Government Busts Illegal Ivory Trade - Jul 15, 2009 Eco FactoryThe African Elephant and Black Rhino are among the highest poached animals on the continent, as high quality ivory is selling for record high prices. Knoxville Zoo visitors can share bath times with the elephants - Jul 23, 2009 Knoxville News SentinelTodd Naelitz, lead elephant handler at the Knoxville Zoo, sprays down Jana, a 9500-pound African elephant. When: 1 pm Thursdays through Mondays through Sept As studs go, Jackson's the one - Jul 29, 2009 Pittsburgh Post GazetteThat's when the Pittsburgh Zoo set the African elephant up on 724 rolling rural acres in Somerset County. At first I was a little concerned about the set-up Mystery of the toucan's beak solved - Jul 23, 2009 Independent...to show that whatever purposes it may have originally served, it now helps to keep the bird cool, just like the oversized ears of the African elephant. Elephants, too, among acts at annual festival - Jul 16, 2009 Columbus Dispatch..."Shannon is an African elephant," he said. "But she was so small. I think that Cora thought she had her overnight. Even to this day, she thinks that's her Jenny the elephant meets her new companion, Gypsy, at the Dallas Zoo - Jul 15, 2009 Dallas Morning NewsGypsy, a 27-year-old female African elephant, arrived at the zoo in late March from a private owner in Southeast Texas and had been quarantined since then. Enough about MJ: A tribute to Bubbles - Jul 14, 2009 San Francisco ChronicleFor the jungle section, he wants to ride out on an African elephant with panthers led on gold chains. Parrots and other birds will fly behind him. An Elephant Bloodline by Howard Blight now available - Jul 11, 2009 South African Music & Theatre (press release)...“The writer cleverly combines his profound knowledge of the African elephant, the African bush, and the people of Africa with the dire necessity for future King crabs dive deep to avoid hot water - Jul 20, 2009 Gaea TimesAfrican elephant wildlife safari mugs http://bit.ly/15NFQD Custom_Gifts African elephant wildlife safari men's t-shirts: African elephant wildlife safari National Museum of Natural History - Jul 13, 2009 BizBashThis museum's most memorable exhibit spaces—from the soaring rotunda, home to an imposing African elephant, to the Hall of Geology, Gems, and Minerals, Wild deals await San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park visitors - Jul 30, 2009 The Desert SunAn African elephant calf was born in March. The park proudly stands as one of the most successful elephant breeding facilities in the United States. 15 More Little Known Facts About Gary Busey - Jul 10, 2009 Celeb JihadBefore he had a life-altering epiphany, Gary Busey killed an endangered African Elephant with a broken Orangina bottle because he wanted to make a tie rack Mammoth task maps extinct DNA - Jul 24, 2009 Globe and MailScientists could examine what makes the mammoth different from its closest cousin, the African elephant, and create a hairy hybrid to sit in zoos, Migrating blue whales give locals, tourists a thrill - Aug 1, 2009 Daily BreezeIt weighs up to 150 tons, and its tongue weighs as much as an African elephant. The whale submerged and the rolling blue ocean waves became flat and Wolfgang's East Africa tourism report - Jul 16, 2009 eTurboNews...following the last CITES meeting, a change, incidentally, heavily criticized and opposed by the Eastern African Elephant Coalition. African Safaris - Elephants Must Be Saved From Extinction - Jul 20, 2009 ClickPress (press release)Governments and conservationists must take urgent measures to save the African elephant from possible extinction. [ClickPress, Mon Jul 20 2009] Researchers Nature at its naked best - Jul 28, 2009 eTaiwan NewsSign up for a stint washing an African elephant, training session with Brandi (an American black bear of Grizzly Adams fame) or take the ultimate catwalk Zoos' plans serve as arks for animals' survival - Jul 18, 2009 Knoxville News SentinelKnoxville Zoo keepers monitor and fret over African elephant Edie's reproductive cycle. Past efforts to artificially inseminate Edie haven't worked. Great British Circus faces animal rights demo - Jul 27, 2009 The GazetteMr Lacey added: “Our African elephant is called Sonja. Her mother was shot in an elephant cull and sold by the game park. “Together with the two Asian Savanna Sleepover Zoo's wild-animal park lets visitors bunk with ... - Jul 11, 2009 Winston-Salem JournalA highlight was the African elephant area, where we ogled a day-old calf and his mom, while, nearby, two researchers sat with laptops, recording his every Author writes about bond between people, pets - Jul 22, 2009 Providence JournalThe much-less-docile African elephant? Never. Some people try to domesticate big cats, but that doesn't always work well. Siegfried and Roy come to mind. Sarkozy exposes EU guilt in a fishing disaster - Jul 18, 2009 Times Online...to be one of the great set-piece battles for conservation, as resonant as that to save the blue whale in the 1960s or the African elephant in the 1980s. The wild side of Myrtle Beach - Jul 12, 2009 CharlotteObserver.comBubbles the African elephant takes carrots from our hands with his trunk. The most up-close part of the wildlife encounter comes with baby tigers, Mercy shooting - Jul 22, 2009 Newcastle HeraldMay you all be impaled up the back passage by a medium-to-large African elephant. I used to shoot big game and revel in the feverish exultation of each kill Trains' speed, force are often underestimated - Jul 11, 2009 Detroit Free PressPeter Hoffmann, a physics professor at Wayne State University, estimated that the force of the collision at about 70 mph would be like an African elephant No matter what dies, that death is a tragedy - Jul 20, 2009 Times and TranscriptIn this, you should read everything from cricket to house cat, from cow to African elephant. Death is tragic, no matter what is doing the dying. Hogle Zoo welcomes baby giraffe - Jul 31, 2009 Deseret NewsBorn in May, the cat made its first public appearance in mid-July. Also, 7900-pound Christie, an African elephant, is expected to deliver a baby in August. DRC's copper and gold in focus - Big elephant country beckons again - Jul 17, 2009 MinewebThe blighted Katanga Province copper-cobalt brownfields treasures re-zoom into focus, along with gold to the far north east. Michael Jackson 'To Ride African Elephant At Comeback Gigs' - 25 Mar 2009 Festivalwise...by Jason Gregory Michael Jackson has asked to arrive on stage on top of an African elephant at his comeback shows in London, according to reports. Michael Jackson Welcomes You To The Jungle - 25 Mar 2009 Undercover Music NewsFor the jungle section, he wants to ride out on an African elephant with panthers led on gold chains. "Parrots and other birds will fly behind him. Seth Rogen Attempts to Squash Beef With Lindsay Lohan - 25 Mar 2009 New York MagazineFor the jungle section, he wants to ride out on an African elephant with panthers led on gold chains. Parrots and other birds will fly behind him. Colbert`s NASA Win Demonstrates Messaging Power - 25 Mar 2009 Channel Insider...his throng of followers to crash Wikipedia by flooding the publicly driven encyclopedia with updates claiming the African elephant was not endangered. Dallas Zoo's African Savanna to be home to elephants and others - Mar 23, 2009 Dallas Morning NewsJenny, a 5-ton African elephant, will move from a yard that is less than a quarter of an acre to a 5- to 6-acre enclosure she'll share with at least five African Elephant Born At Wild Animal Park - Mar 13, 2009 KGTV, 10News.comAn African elephant was born Friday at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park in Escondido, officials said. The unnamed male calf was born at 3:16 am to Zoo's baby elephant turns 1 year old; party Saturday - Mar 19, 2009 Baltimore SunThe African elephant was the first elephant born at the zoo in its 133-year history. Zoo officials held a contest to name the elephant last year. Pink Elephant Steals Pink Dolphin's 15 Minutes of Fame - Mar 20, 2009 findingDulcineaThe BBC is reporting that a pink albino African elephant has been spotted in Botswana. A wildlife cameraman, Mike Holding, told the BBC, "This was a really African elephant born at San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park - Mar 16, 2009 KSBYA male African elephant was born Friday at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park. Zoo officials say the calf is healthy and will slowly be introduced to the Elephant at Disney's Animal Kingdom dies - Mar 18, 2009 WEARORLANDO (AP) -- Disney officials say a 24-year-old African elephant has died at one of their Orlando-based theme parks after a brief illness. Two's not terrible for Scotty - Mar 22, 2009 Louisville Courier-JournalEvents for Scotty have drawn crowds since the African elephant was born March 18, 2007. Scotty was the first elephant born in Kentucky, zoo officials say. Victory! Elephant Rides Banned! - Mar 21, 2009 Opposing Views2009 After finding out that Renninger's Farmers and Flea Market in Mount Dora, Florida, was offering rides on a female African elephant named Nosey, New elephant at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is a star - Mar 17, 2009 Denver PostBy Bill Radford Malaika, a female African elephant, arrived at the zoo in December after 21 years in the hands of a private owner — an animal trainer who Pink Elephant Photographed in Botswana - Mar 23, 2009 Towleroad..."While albinism is thought to be fairly common in Asian elephants, it is much less common in the larger African species. Ecologist Dr Mike Chase, Dangerous Elephant Rides Spark Protest at State Wildlife Agency - Mar 19, 2009 PETA (press release)Commission's offices in Tallahassee on Friday to pressure the agency to take custody of an African elephant named Nosey from the Liebel Family Circus. African elephant dies in Zoo - Mar 9, 2009 Express BuzzMYSORE: The African female elephant Jambi, who was the cynosure of all eyes for more than three decades in the Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens, MSRA Outbreak, One of a Kind - Mar 7, 2009 MSNBC...from its mother on December 24 and hand-reared by zoo caretakers in an individual stall of the African elephant enclosure,â€? according to the report. Preparing for birth is jumbo process - Mar 18, 2009 Deseret NewsBut what's a few hundred extra pounds to an African elephant? "Look closely, and you can't even tell that she's pregnant," says Doug Tomkinson, Critics pledge to protest at circus’s elephant act - Mar 4, 2009 The GazetteThe Great British Circus, which is set to come to the resort later this year, has announced two Asian elephants and one African elephant will be touring Circus elephant in the middle of jumbo row - Mar 15, 2009 The Nelson MailAnimal rights campaigner Save Animals from Exploitation (Safe) says Jumbo, an African elephant with the Loritz Circus which is currently in Christchurch, Cycling through wild Namibia - Mar 20, 2009 San Francisco Chronicle..."A journey of giraffes!" someone shouted, pointing to a dozen of the creatures cantering the shoreline of a shimmering white salt plain. Wildlife Smuggling Nets Big Bucks For Organized Crime - Mar 18, 2009 The Epoch TimesThe African elephant was declared endangered in 1978. In cooperation with Interpol, HSC has set up a fund to help provide support for the families of park SCHRAM: Party symbols need a makeover - Mar 13, 2009 Washington TimesKeeper Rachel McClung carries a spool of enclosure wire past Alice, an African elephant at the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, RI Zoos are seeking a On with the show! - Mar 21, 2009 Pensacola News JournalAnd, when the Pensa-cola Opera performs Verdi's "Aida" May 1 and 3, an African elephant will be waiting backstage. That feat couldn't have been accomplished Animal rights groups up in arms as circus comes to town - Mar 18, 2009 This Is HorncastleThe Great British Circus will be at Manby showground from today (Wednesday) until March 29 featuring an African elephant, two Indian elephants as well as Travel fun: family day trips at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo - Mar 20, 2009 Examiner.com...during a day trip at the zoo include specimens of: aqouti, a small, quick mammal, Amazon blue fronted parrots, tufted deer, eagle, and African elephant. Big attraction at Missoula taxidermy show - Mar 6, 2009 KPAX-TVSean Andrais of Alpine Artistry in Arlee created it from his own African Elephant kill. The ears and trunk detach from the body, a smart move. A safari B&B: Bed, breakfast and beasts - Mar 6, 2009 Minneapolis Star TribuneOne morning at Vision Quest Ranch in Salinas, Calif., I broke bread with Mailika, a 4500-pound African elephant who consumes 150 pounds of food a day. 'Flawed' Red List Puts Species at Risk - Mar 12, 2009 ABC NewsThe African elephant (seen here) was moved off of the high-risk list last year, but some question... While no one wants to see an end to the Red List, How the largest dinosaurs got so big - Mar 18, 2009 New ScientistThe biggest land animal today is the African elephant, with a large male weighing in at around 6 tonnes. The largest land mammal ever was a 6-metre-tall ’Tis the season to think of recycling - Mar 18, 2009 Chelmsford IndependentLet me put that into perspective: a male African elephant weighs ~5 tons; we created 167 elephants worth of trash in February alone. Wildlife Safari in Winston is exciting, educational - Mar 3, 2009 Statesman JournalDuring the last hour of the field trip my son's schoolmates stood before a female African elephant. While Safari staff told of the elephant's history and Zoos exact an unacceptable price in animal welfare and conservation - Mar 19, 2009 The HeraldIs there really any difference between an African elephant being brought to England in the thirteenth century for the amusement of King Henry III, Two Syrian nationals caught with 2kg ivory - Mar 8, 2009 Times of IndiaThe report will show whether it is Indian or African elephant's tusks," he said. "If it is proved that they have purchased ivory from India, Ibrahim can be My week - Mar 4, 2009 Third SectorOur visitor takes great delight in seeing our bubble-wrapped African elephant, which has become a bit of an icon for the project. It was too large to remove Marsupials at risk if temperatures rise - Mar 13, 2009 Sydney Morning Herald...their breeding grounds to predatory rats; even the African elephant will be threatened if food and water become scarce due to drought, the report says. Wild times at Vision Quest Ranch in Salinas - Mar 18, 2009 Los Angeles TimesWeighing in at 10000 pounds, Butch, an African elephant, is indeed a big eater. The apples hand-fed to him by delighted visitors are mere morsels. Hai Phong customs make massive illegal ivory haul - Mar 7, 2009 Thanh Nien DailyCustoms officials Friday busted the largest ever ivory smuggling case in Vietnam, seizing more than 200 pairs of African-elephant tusks at a Hai Phong port. More bids in for new EHS project - Mar 17, 2009 Chronicle-TelegramMarous has had a hand in a number of projects throughout Northeast Ohio, including the $20 million African Elephant Crossing exhibit at the Cleveland Amarula Goes To Bollywood - Mar 12, 2009 Cape Business News...its reputation as the world’s best liqueur on the International Wine & Spirit Competition, and its strong link with the majestic African elephant make When ‘conservation’ is not in the animal’s best interest - Mar 18, 2009 The HeraldIn Britain, they've come a long way since King John supposedly established a zoo in the Tower of London around 1200 and the first African elephant was Beloved gorilla euthanized - Mar 24, 2009 Deseret NewsMisha, a 27-year-old African elephant, was the last animal to die at the zoo. Misha was euthanized last September because of declining health. Limitedness could make fast food more appealing - Mar 2, 2009 UM ManeaterAn average Shamrock Shake packs enough syrup to give an African elephant diabetes. The Shamrock Shake has a well-documented history of causing most DINO-MITE! - Mar 9, 2009 LA.comThe Mission Bistro came through with reasonably priced edamame and tofu salad while The Phatal DJ was on the decks in front an African Elephant display. HUMAN-ELEPHANT CONFLICT - 21 Feb 2009 Star of Mysore,The Forest and the Savannah Elephant are commonly known as the African Elephant, whereas the Asian Elephant is known as the Indian Elephant. LUI KIT WONG/THE NEWS TRIBUNE - Feb 16, 2009 TheNewsTribune.com,Madeline Jones paints a scene on a tanned and preserved African elephant ear. The Orting artist receives ears from hunters all over the world who seek her Beasts and Breakfast - Feb 13, 2009 Washington Post,On my one and only morning at Vision Quest Ranch, I broke bread with Mailika, a 4500-pound African elephant who consumes 150 pounds of food a day despite Elephant Susi sad without gal pal - Feb 7, 2009 Calgary Herald,Susi, a 36-year-old African elephant cow who was born in the wild on the African savannah, has reportedly been suffering depression since Alicia, Baby elephant exploring paddock - Feb 7, 2009 BBC News,The latest African elephant calf to be born at Howletts has gone out into the paddock and is adjusting well to her surroundings, her keepers have said. Elephant falls in love with zoo keeper at West Midland Safari Park - Feb 10, 2009 BirminghamMail.net,Five, an African elephant, fell for her 30-year-old keeper, Lawrence Bates, when he was given the task of looking after her at the West Midland Safari Park. All About Crabs - Feb 19, 2009 San Francisco Chronicle,Highlights include an African elephant exhibition; Simba Pori, a 1.5-acre lion habitat; Rainforest Islands; African Savanna Adventure, featuring two A flying road for Asia's embattled elephants - Feb 13, 2009 Asia Times Online,Even though the larger African elephant population has also dramatically shrunk from about five million between the 1930s and 1940s, On Ivory: Conservationist John Frederick Walker details challenges ... - Feb 4, 2009 Medill Reports,What led you to study the African elephant? I’ve been fascinated by Africa ever since I was a child. But it wasn’t until I had a chance to go to Africa to Baby elephant sizes up surroundings - Feb 8, 2009 Rye and Battle Today,The latest baby African elephant born at a Kent wildlife park is adjusting well to her new surroundings in the outdoor paddock, her keepers said. Billy: He’s an Elephant WE Won’t Forget - Feb 15, 2009 San Fernando Valley Business Journal Online,Billy has been alone since May 2007, when his companion, Ruby, the zoo’s last African elephant, was relocated to the Performing Animal Welfare Society’s Elephants and toddlers - Feb 12, 2009 The Daily Sound,Conservatively speaking, so does an African elephant. The average bicycle weighs between 20 and 40 pounds - the size of your average toddler. Bengals pick Steelers to beat Cardinals in Super Bowl - Jan 29, 2009 Los Angeles Times,In the past, an Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin picked a winner, while the football-kicking African elephant was wide right. Check out Brady MacDonald's post Photos: An Ancient Tree of Africa Yields the World's Most Exotic ... - Feb 3, 2009 PR Newswire (press release),Nothing embodies the "Spirit of Africa" -- and the essence of Amarula -- more than the African elephant, whose enduring image graces every bottle of Amarula Bob Barker donates $1.5 million for LA Zoo elephant - Jan 26, 2009 Los Angeles Times,...where he would join Ruby, a female African elephant who left the LA Zoo in 2007 and who also benefited from a $300000 donation from Barker. Vegan said to be largest on earth - Jan 30, 2009 Examiner.comBut, consider this fact in support of how nutritious, strength-supporting, and satisfying this lifestyle is: The African elephant (Loxodonta africana) is Free Jumbo - Jan 28, 2009 Scene Dunedin,National animal advocacy group Save Animals From Exploitation will stage a protest against the treatment of Jumbo, a 35-year-old African elephant. Jurassic Park in Millennium Park? Penn State prof says it could happen - Feb 4, 2009 Medill Reports,Eventually Schuster will compare the genome of the mammoth to the genome of the African elephant to study the evolution process. The Circus without Elephants - Feb 2, 2009 Eco Child's Play...which are traditionally used in circuses, is currently estimated to be 60000, which is almost one-tenth of the current African elephant population. It's time to do away with animal acts - Feb 6, 2009 News Chief,Most of us have seen films on TV of the African elephant that escaped from the circus, killed her trainer and injured 13 others before being shot to death. Spring Break ideas for NIU students - Feb 18, 2009 Northern Star Online,According to the Web site, Brookfield Zoo is home to animals ranging from the naked mole rat to the African elephant. General zoo admission is $12 for Reader Travelogue: An expedition through four countries reveals ... - Jan 31, 2009 Memphis Commercial Appeal,The African elephant's back is more like that of a horse and the saddle is similar to a horse's saddle, only larger. While in Zimbabwe, they held their IVORY'S GHOSTS: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants - Feb 6, 2009 Chicago Public Radio,...and sometimes savage story of ivory’s enormous impact on both human history and that of its most important source—the majestic African elephant. NBCSanDiego.com - Feb 5, 2009 MSNBC..."This animal would have been larger than a modern African elephant and the largest land animal of it's time," said Thomas A. Demere, curator of the Jumbo protest planned - Jan 29, 2009 Otago Daily Times,She said the group had tried working with the circus to find options for Jumbo, a female African elephant, but the circus was more interested in making Opera Gala shines in Toledo, soprano Danielle de Niese in BG - Feb 12, 2009 Toledo Blade,...and participate in a silent art auction featuring paintings by the zoo's Asian sloth bear, an African elephant, a Burmese python, and an orangutan. Toledo Zoo's Vineyard Adventure Offers Valentine's Fun - Feb 6, 2009 Fremont News Messenger,There will be four paintings available to bid on painted by the Toledo Zoo's Asian sloth bear, African elephant, Burmese python and orangutan. Identifying the bird, when not much bird is left - Jan 26, 2009 International Herald Tribune,But around the corner from the stuffed African elephant that greets the visiting hordes of schoolchildren, down a back hall from the employee bike rack, Birds in the News 158 - Feb 2, 2009 ScienceBlogsBut around the corner from the stuffed African elephant that greets the visiting hordes of schoolchildren, down a back hall from the employee bike rack, Football book teaches women how to enjoy the game -- or pick up a man! - Jan 30, 2009 Tampabay.com,It takes 480 pints of beer to get an African elephant drunk. And "colts" is the actual term for baby seahorses. If you get nothing else out of this book, Dottie the elephant had acute pneumonia - Nov 6, 2008 Atlanta Journal Constitution,By Leon Stafford Zoo Atlanta’s African elephant Dottie, who died suddenly last week in the third trimester of her pregnancy, suffered from acute pneumonia, The real-life Mowgli who grew up with Africa's wild animals - Nov 12, 2008 Telegraph.co.uk,Using her innocence and imagination, the young 'Mowgli' befriended one of the giants of the animal kingdom, Abu the African elephant. The Big Question: Is it right to sell ivory, or does it just ... - Oct 28, 2008 Independent,And in Kenya, which opposes the current auction, a number of Chinese nationals were convicted of smuggling in 22 out of 37 African elephant-range states. Zoo hopes fourth attempt to artificially inseminate elephant Edie ... - Nov 12, 2008 Knoxville News Sentinel,Maybe the fourth try will be the charm for Knoxville Zoo African elephant Edie. This week zoo elephant keepers and a veterinary reproductive specialist are Ivory Auctions In Southern Africa Raise More Than $15 Million - Nov 7, 2008 Voice of AmericaThe organization says the money will go for African elephant conservation and to support local communities. Lisa Schlein reports from Geneva. Wildlife group applauds EBay's global ban on ivory sales - Oct 22, 2008 Los Angeles Times,Today, the total African elephant population is less than 470000. The team was led by Samuel Wasser, a University of Washington conservation biologist, Atlanta zoo's African elephant dies - Oct 28, 2008 Live 5 News,ATLANTA (WCSC) - Zoo Atlanta is reporting that their 26-year-old African elephant Dottie died Monday night. Zoo officials say all of the animals' health and Elephant’s death a double loss - Oct 29, 2008 Atlanta Journal Constitution,...lions to ruffed lemurs to a panda cub —- the zoo lost 26-year-old Dottie and her unborn calf overnight Monday when the popular African elephant died. Tuskers strike gold - Nov 12, 2008 Dispatch Online,...“We will make world history by having an African elephant literally striking a coin celebrating its own species.â€? — Sapa. Zoo Atlanta Elephant Dies - Oct 29, 2008 News/Talk 750 WSB,Dottie, the zoo's pregnant African elephant, died late Monday of unknown causes. The elephant, which was in the third trimester of her 24 month pregnancy, Roads Bring Death And Fear To Forest Elephants - Oct 28, 2008 Science Daily (press release)WCS elephant conservation efforts have been supported by the US Fish and Wildlife Service's African Elephant Conservation Fund, Save the Elephants, Former owner says Ned the elephant just a picky eater - Nov 14, 2008 Tampabay.com,...gave up his license to exhibit animals to avoid prosecution for violating the Animal Welfare Act. The problems started when his African elephant, Kenya, Tuskers to mint own gold coins - Nov 11, 2008 The South African Star,..."We will make world history by having an African elephant literally striking a coin, celebrating its own species." The coins will be struck on Friday. Ohio Judge Hands Ivory Smuggler Five Year Prison Term - Oct 22, 2008 NBC Chicago,The $100000 fine will be given to the African Elephant Conservation Fund which supports projects that enhance sustainable conservation programs for African Elephants Get Annual Pumpkin Treat - Nov 3, 2008 WOWT,Shenga, a 25-year-old female African elephant headed straight to the giant pumpkin. She made quick work of the treat with her foot and trunk. Animals have to be neighborly too - Oct 26, 2008 Los Angeles Times,...she's chronicled the Oakland Zoo's attempts to hand-raise a baby African elephant; followed the Los Angeles Zoo's LA-born gorilla Caesar on his trek to Maggie celebrates a year in California - Nov 2, 2008 KTUU,The 8000- pound African elephant left the Alaska Zoo and moved to a warmer home at the PAWS sanctuary in San Andreas, Calif., last year. Carousels get a conservation bent - Nov 12, 2008 Los Angeles Times,Aside from the Bengal tiger, seal and zebra pictured here, the merry-go-round's lineup of 33 animals includes a giant panda, African elephant, cheetah, Mammoth fossil found after Ike, returned to owner - Oct 22, 2008 Sault Star,The second tooth, from an African elephant, was discovered Oct. 4 on the beach by a reporter doing a story on the original find. Eventually, the teeth made Elephants star in educational exhibit a fair - Oct 31, 2008 Live 5 News,..."They are going to see something that they can't see hardly anywhere else because we show them the difference between the Asian and African elephant. National Museums of Scotland puts on display of unusual exhibits - Nov 14, 2008 stv.tv,From a Sumatran tiger to a baby African elephant; a Napoleonic tea set to a Sri Lankan snake demon mask, visitors will be spoilt for choice at the Wise elephants avoid 'danger roads' - Oct 28, 2008 International Animal Rescue,While some scientists consider the forest elephant its own species, others say it is one of two sub-species of the African elephant, along with the savanna. Dallas council member Vonciel Jones Hill: City should organize big ... - Nov 5, 2008 Dallas Morning News,...make that a business endeavor," she said. This suggestion came as the council gazed upon a photo of a massive African elephant taken on the trade mission. Les Schobert dies at 61; Los Angeles Zoo's former general curator - Oct 22, 2008 Los Angeles Times,Last year, Schobert helped arrange for Ruby, a female African elephant at the LA Zoo, to be relocated to an animal sanctuary in Northern California. Alaska zoo expatriate thriving in elephant 'heaven' - Nov 9, 2008 Monterey County Herald,By MEGAN HOLLAND Pat Derby, a founder and director of the Performing Animal Welfare Society, walks alongside an African elephant at the organization's Ark Yes, he can be good for Israel - Nov 8, 2008 Mail & Guardian Online,The German went to Africa, returned after 10 years and composed a five-volume "Foreword to a General Introduction to the Origins of the African Elephant". Ivory sale earns $1.1m from China, Japan - Oct 28, 2008 AFPWINDHOEK (AFP) — Namibia sold more than seven tonnes of ivory for 1.1 million dollars on Tuesday, in the first legal auction of elephant tusks in nearly a Trained experts know what elephants need - Nov 6, 2008 Los Angeles Daily News,In the past 25 years, the wild African elephant population has fallen from 1.6million to less than 500000 - a decline of more than 100 elephants each day. Fewer species big and small - Nov 8, 2008 Inquirer.net,The population of the formerly vulnerable African Elephant has also increased. It is now classified as near threatened. Opportunities for the next US president - Nov 1, 2008 Jamaica Gleaner,Valerie, a 26-year-old female African elephant picks Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama, picture over Republican presidential candidate Siam's a big star - Nov 7, 2008 Sunshine Coast Daily,Siam, an African elephant that weighs more than 500kg, resides at Australia Zoo and has recently finished filming a role in Network Ten's upcoming The Big Question: Will scientists ever be able to resurrect long ... - Nov 4, 2008 Independent,For the mammoth, the African elephant might be the best choice, although there may be important biological differences that pose insuperable barriers. Tusky business - Chobe's elephants - Nov 3, 2008 Easier (press release),...of elephant in Africa, largely escaping the massive illegal poaching that decimated other African elephant populations in the 1970s and 80s. Animals turn traitor to their political parties - Nov 1, 2008 Daily Democrat,..."Valerie," a 26-year-old African elephant, on the other hand, wasn't as deliberating. The 7400 pounder wrapped her trunk around Odin. Zoo offers exotic animal ringtones - Oct 23, 2008 The Press AssociationAnimal Park near Ashford - means that customers can choose from an assortment of different animal sounds, from an African elephant to a Malaysian tapir. "World's Ugliest Dog" dies - Nov 10, 2008 Los Angeles Times,...she's chronicled the Oakland Zoo's attempts to hand-raise a baby African elephant; followed the Los Angeles Zoo's LA-born gorilla Caesar on his trek to When mammals are threatened, we are threatened - Oct 21, 2008 Arrow Lakes News,But who cares about the black-footed ferret, or the wild horse, or the African elephant? We humans are not in danger of extinction, are we? Extinction Stalks One in Four of the World's Mammals - Oct 25, 2008 NBC Sandiego.com,The African elephant, Loxodonta africana, moved from Vulnerable to Near Threatened, although its status varies considerably across its range. Zimmer Custom Tailors Sales Style - Nov 3, 2008 NewsFactor Network,Twenty-five years ago, after seeing a picture of a large male African elephant bending down to get into its cement night house, Zimmer was disturbed to Violinist Oliveira to perform at church Sunday - Nov 6, 2008 TCPalm,The centerpiece of the action-adventure story is the world of the African elephant and its battle against man’s greed and arrogance. Hunter donations treat zoo animals to natural foods - Oct 27, 2008 Anchorage Daily News (subscription),In a time when the zoo is repositioning itself as a cold-climate conservation park after years of controversy housing an African elephant, the food is Drumming toward cultural understanding - Nov 4, 2008 Oneida Dispatch,As a lover of the African elephant, she said she is very into learning about that region and its culture and being a part of this club helps her to do so. Close-up - Nov 4, 2008 So Md News,It was an Indiana-Jones kind of job that included work on the iconic African elephant on display in the US National Museum of Natural History rotunda and The Goldilocks genome - Nov 2, 2008 ScienceAlert,In all, around 25 species of mammals have now been sequenced including the cat, dog, horse, cow, human and African elephant. While costs are coming down, VOCATIONAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS PRESENTED - Oct 25, 2008 Star of Mysore,The four recipients from Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens are Sannaiah, the man who takes care of African Elephant, Narasamma, Gardener, who also takes Caption Only - Oct 25, 2008 StarPhoenix,AROUND THE WORLD IN PHOTOS: PECKING ORDER: Two orpington hens pick corn under the surveillance of an African elephant Friday at a zoo in Duisburg, Germany. Selling elephant ivory a tricky business - Oct 22, 2008 Phoenixville News,The African elephant population in 1900 was about 10 million. By 2004, the population had dropped to approximately 400000. CITES prepared a comprehensive A new home where the elephants and giraffes can roam - Oct 22, 2008 Providence Journal,By Philip Marcelo An African elephant explores its newly designed digs in Providence’s Roger Williams Park Zoo. The overhauled Africa area includes the IFAW: Controversial ivory sales close today in South Africa - Nov 6, 2008 Politics.co.uk,In 1989, CITES Parties listed the African elephant on Appendix I, effectively prohibiting all international trade in elephant products, including ivory. Where is the Israeli Obama? - Nov 1, 2008 MWC News,...returns after ten years and composes a five-volume tome: "A Foreword to a General Introduction to the Origins of the African Elephant". [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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