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We Need Your Help To Save Elephants! TAKE ACTION!
Animals  (tags: elephant, abuse, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, conservation, endangered, environment, ethics, habitat, protection, suffering, wildanimals, wildlife )

Lindsey
- 170 days ago - ifaw.org
Join our campaign today and you can help free elephants from the threat of ivory poaching. For starters, how about signing our pledge below that urges the US Government to protect the world's remaining elephants by opposing any further international...
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Elephant to Have Right Eye Removed in Operation
Animals  (tags: elephant, zoo, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare )

Julie
- 178 days ago - bbc.co.uk
Duchess, a 40-year-old African elephant at Paignton zoo has been treated for cataracts in both eyes and glaucoma in her right eye.
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Animals Petition: Retire Sambo Ban Elephants in Phnom Pehn | Change.Org
Animals  (tags: AnimalCruelty, Elephant, suffering, sadness, endangered, cruelty, environment, habitat, abuse, society, ethics, investigation, protection, animaladvocates, animalrights, AnimalWelfare )

Elizabeth
- 193 days ago - change.org
Sambo is a 51 year old, female elephant, living a solitary life in the city of Phnom Penh for the last 30 years. She walks a 4km round trip from her living area behind a casino to Wat Phnom temple. Sambo stands at the temple up to 9 hours a day, 4 days...
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PLEASE Reunite Tarra the Elephant With Carol Buckley! TAKE ACTION!
Animals  (tags: AnimalWelfare, elephant, Tarra, animals, conservation, ethics, humans, protection, sadness, wildlife, suffering )

Lindsey
- 202 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Many of you have seen the now famous YouTube video of the elephant Tarra and her special canine friend Bella. The video went viral 2 years ago and brought world attention to The Elephant Sanctuary in Hoenwald Tennesse.
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Elephant Carries Body of Dead Dog Friend Home
Animals  (tags: elephant, dog, Bella, Tarra, Elephant Sanctuary, Reynard Loki, 13.7 Billion Years )

Reynard
- 209 days ago - app.e2ma.net
After a dog named Bella was likely killed by coyotes, her elephant friend Tarra found her and carried her body home. A sad story of two unlikely friends.
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Circus Elephant Kills Girl in Vietnam
Animals  (tags: elephant, circus, animalcruelty, death, abused )

Julie
- 220 days ago - canada.com
A circus elephant in Vietnam scooped up an 11-year-old girl with its trunk as she tried to feed it, threw her to the ground and trampled her to death, police said on Monday.
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Baby Elephant Doesn't Understand Its Trunk (CUTE VIDEO!)
Animals  (tags: elephant, baby, good news, happy, cute, funny, video, animals, conservation, protection, wildlife )

Lindsey
- 221 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
This cute little elephant at the Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire, England seems to be struggling with its first-ever baby steps on Earth. And it doesn't seem to quite understand what to do with his trunk. :)
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ACTION ALERT: Tell Maine: Stop Pseudo-Sanctuary For Solitary Elephant, Rosie! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: rosie, elephant, captivity, loneliness, boredom, suffering, protection, sanctuary )

Simone
- 223 days ago - all-creatures.org
Despite pleas from Maine citizens, experts from around the world, and actor Lily Tomlin, a veterinarian is moving forward with his plan to bring a lone elephant named Rosie to live in a backyard "sanctuary" that is a anything but a refuge.
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Take Action With Leonardo DiCaprio to Stop the Ivory Trade!
Animals  (tags: elephant, petition, leonardo dicaprio, ivory, trade, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, crime, cruelty, protection, suffering )

Lindsey
- 234 days ago - ifaw.org
IFAW today announced that actor and activist Leonardo DiCaprio will lead its Animal Action campaign to save elephants and shut down the cruel international ivory trade. Click on the picture of the elephant that says SIGN OUR PETITION!
42 comments
Elephant in Thailand Gets New Prosthetic Leg
Animals  (tags: elephant, AnimalWelfare, animals, conservation, GoodNews, habitat, protection, rescued, wildanimals, wildlife )

Lindsey
- 252 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
A 50-year-old elephant in Thailand who lost her left front leg a few years ago is now kicking it up with a new prosthetic. PHOTOS
24 comments
Kelly Rowland Brings Elephant and Hunky Guys to 'Lay It on Me' Video Shoot
Animals  (tags: animalcruelty, animalwelfare, suffering, elephant )

Julie
- 257 days ago - aceshowbiz.com
The former bandmate of Beyonce Knowles shoots a playful scene with Susie the baby elephant, and gets flirty with shirtless males and her featured guest Big Sean.
2 comments
ACTION ALERT: Save Rosie the Elephant From a Lonely, Freezing Maine Winter! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: rosie, imprisoned, loneliness, suffering, arthritis, enviornment, zoo, elephant )

Simone
- 261 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
Rosie the former circus elephant is a gentle creature who suffers from chronic arthritis because of an old injury. Now, well-meaning but misguided ex-performers want to bring her to live out her days in a tiny pen with inadequate conditions.
43 comments
[PETITION ALERT: Help Get Sarah the Elephant to a Sanctuary! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: elephant, sarah, suffering, ringling bros circus, cruetly, welfare, sanctuary, retirement )

Simone
- 268 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
The elephant pictured is Sarah. Sarah is a Ringling Brothers' circus elephant who, like other elephants, has been forced to perform unnatural tricks in an unnatural setting.
22 comments
Pachyderm Problem Solver
Animals  (tags: Pachyderm, elephant, trunks )

Suzane
- 277 days ago - news.discovery.com
Elephant's use their trunks as sensory devices. But many previous studies of tool use and problem solving relied on the elephants holding tools in their trunks, as if the trunk were a primate's hand.
26 comments
Elephant Makes a Stool--First Known Aha Moment for Species
Animals  (tags: Elephant, animals, zoo, Asian )

Agnes
- 279 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.com
In an apparent flash of insight, a young Asian elephant in a zoo turned a plastic cube into a stool--and a tool--a new study says. That eureka moment is the first evidence that pachyderms can run problem-solving scenarios in their heads, then mentally map
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