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Animals News tagged with elephant

Elephant Seals Sleep While Diving, Study Suggests
Animals  (tags: Elephant, Seals, Animals )

Nancy
- 14 days ago - news.nationalgeographic.co.in
Migrating northern elephant seals slowly drift downward to rest in the ocean depths, according to a new study of the animals' dive patterns.
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BBC Children's TV Safari Guide Killed By Charging Elephant in Tanzania
Animals  (tags: elephant, killed, safari guide, host children show, sadness )

Lone
- 25 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
A Safari guide who was working on a BBC children's television programme was killed after an elephant charged and trampled over him yesterday
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Your Morning Adorable: Rescued Elephant Calves Frolic at Kenya Wildlife Center
Animals  (tags: animals, AnimalWelfare, elephant, rescued, calves, environment, protection, wildlife )

Cher
- 39 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Among the first to suffer as a result of Kenya's ongoing drought are the country's wild animals, and as we learned last month, even Kenya's elephants are being affected.
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Prominent Lawyer Takes Up Lucy's Cause
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, elephant, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 64 days ago - vancouversun.com
Clayton Ruby is famous for getting the wrongfully convicted out of jail. Now, the high-profile criminal lawyer will work to free a different kind of jailbird -- Lucy the elephant -- from a different kind of cage: Edmonton's Valley Zoo.
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STOP ELEPHANT EXPLOITATION
Animals  (tags: elephant, zoos, circus, inhumane, freedom )

Lone
- 71 days ago - bornfree.org.uk
Karachi Zoo and Safari Park in Pakistan wanted some African elephants. Their previous elephant - chained for over 20 hours a day, kept in a woefully inadequate enclosure, dominated and trained to give rides - had died. So in June, Karachi Zoo got four
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Faithful Elephant Guards Electrocuted Mahout in Gujarat Village
Animals  (tags: elephant, mahout, electrocuted, villagers, wild animals, humans )

Simone
- 84 days ago - newstrackindia.com
An elephant stood guard near the body of its electrocuted mahout for hours in Vankal village in Gujarat. The incident took place at Vankal village of Navsari district, when the mahout, Lachhu Kevat, was electrocuted to death while sitting on his
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Elephants At Great British Circus Are Secretly Filmed Being Beaten
Animals  (tags: animals, animalcruelty, abuse, cruelty, elephant, circus, sadness, suffering, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 97 days ago - news.sky.com
An undercover investigation by Animal Defenders International (ADI) filmed three elephants - Sonja, Delhi and Vana Mana - during the circus's tour of Britain this summer. A groom is seen deliberately twisting an animal's tail and the elephant
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Thai Elephant Crippled in Land Mine Blast 10 Years Ago Walks Again With Artificial Leg
Animals  (tags: GoodNews, AnimalWelfare, rescued, elephant )

Lone
- 100 days ago - nydailynews.com
Motola, a female elephant who stepped on a land mine 10 years ago and endured painful operations, was fitted Saturday in Thailand for a permanent artificial leg.
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Elephant Fitted With Jumbo-Sized Artificial Leg After Stepping on a Land Mine 10 Years Ago
Animals  (tags: elephant, land mine victims, articfiial leg, independence, wildlife, survivor )

Simone
- 101 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Victims of land mines come in all shapes and sizes and Motola the elephant is no exception. Motola, an elephant from Thailand, has just been fitted with an artificial leg after stepping on a land mine 10 years ago. Her new leg will be a permanent
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Baby Elephant Survives Mishap
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, elephant, rescued, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 106 days ago - petstreet.co.uk
A baby elephant lost his footing and fell into a manhole in Thailand. The poor thing was terrified and would have surely died but help was at hand. The accident took place while the elephant was out walking in the street with its
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Protesters Want Lucy Moved Immediately
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, elephant, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 108 days ago - calgary.ctv.ca
It's a fight that's been going on for several months, but animal rights activists aren't giving up; they staged a protest outside the Edmonton Valley Zoo Saturday saying Lucy the elephant needs to be moved immediately.
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World's Largest Mammals: Slaves to Humans
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, endangered, elephant, circuses, suffering, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 113 days ago - rushprnews.com
Captive Animals (CAPS) is an activist organization exposing animal cruelty in captivity, specifically, traveling circuses the world over. Most recently, despite the latest improvements in regulations and bans on abusive behavior by circus trainers across
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Ringling Beats Animals .Com
Animals  (tags: elephant, tiger, circus, abuse, AnimalCruelty, abused, abuse, animals, cruelty, crime, investigation, suffering )

Echo
- 125 days ago - RinglingBeatsAnimals.com
New website, please check it out and share it with everyone, crosspost. THANKS
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How re-Homing a Violent Herd Was the Start of a Unique Relationship Betweend Man and Giant Beast
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, elephant, humans, protection, wildanimals, wildlife )

Maria
- 185 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
They were a herd of violent rogue elephants destined to be shot. He was their last hope for survival. What happened next was extraordinary.
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Max the Dog Is An Elephant Keeper at the Houston Zoo
Animals  (tags: animals, animalwelfare, dogs, elephant, GoodNews )

Maria
- 187 days ago - examiner.com
Max, a lovely pit bull, has been adopted by the Houston Zoo in Houston, Texas to play the role of zookeeper and companion to the elephants. Yes, you heard correctly, Max - whose full name is Elephas maximus (how fitting) is part of the elephant barn at
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