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Poachers "wiped out" the entire elephant herd in Sierra Leone's only wildlife park, wildlife managers said Thursday after police said they had arrested a gang of 10 poachers. http://www.physorg.com/news178459834.html Biology Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:11:10 EST news178459834 An Indian inventor has created a device to stop rampaging elephants in their tracks, amid concern about human injuries and deaths when they run amok, his company said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news178184014.html Biology Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:40:02 EST news178184014 (AP) -- All elephants living in Indian zoos and circuses will be moved to wildlife parks and game sanctuaries where the animals can graze more freely, officials said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news177332181.html Biology Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:10:01 EST news177332181 Pet owners and scientists who spend a lot of time in the wild say that they can tell when an animal is upset by the sound of its voice. Now new analyses of animal calls may offer an explanation; humans seem to express frustration in the same way as other mammals. http://www.physorg.com/news176658273.html Biology Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:10:03 EST news176658273 (PhysOrg.com) -- Large, lumbering animals such as elephants move much more efficiently than small, agile ones such as mice, University of Manchester scientists have shown. http://www.physorg.com/news171549574.html Biology Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:42:33 EST news171549574 Emmanuel Gheerbrant, paleontologist at the Paris Museum (France), discovered one of the oldest modern ungulates related to the elephant order. The study is published in the PNAS journal. http://www.physorg.com/news166282197.html Other Sciences Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:30:19 EST news166282197 Long-term declines of elephants, giraffe, impala and other animals in Kenya are occurring at the same rates within the country's national parks as outside of these protected areas, according to a study released this week. http://www.physorg.com/news166251048.html Biology Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:51:23 EST news166251048 Australia has welcomed the first elephant ever born in the country with the arrival of a 100-kilogram (220.4-pound) male calf at a Sydney zoo, according to keepers. http://www.physorg.com/news165899574.html Biology Sat, 04 Jul 2009 04:13:41 EST news165899574 (PhysOrg.com) -- For millions of years, dinosaurs have been considered the largest creatures ever to walk on land. While they still maintain this status, a new study suggests that some dinosaurs may actually have weighed as little as half as much as previously thought. http://www.physorg.com/news165147675.html Other Sciences Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:21:56 EST news165147675 (AP) -- Indonesian scientists are reconstructing the largest, most complete skeleton of a prehistoric giant elephant ever found in the tropics, a finding that may offer new clues into the largely mysterious origins of its modern Asian cousin. http://www.physorg.com/news164957722.html Other Sciences Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:36:29 EST news164957722 Legal loopholes and insufficient law enforcement mean that Thailand continues to harbour the largest illegal ivory market in Asia, says a new report from the wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC. http://www.physorg.com/news164594748.html Biology Fri, 19 Jun 2009 01:46:13 EST news164594748 (PhysOrg.com) -- A fence made out of beehives wired together has been shown to significantly reduce crop raids by elephants, Oxford University scientists report. http://www.physorg.com/news163418695.html Biology Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:05:30 EST news163418695 A new report published today provides compelling evidence that paying to conserve billions of tons of carbon stored in tropical forests could also protect orangutans, pygmy elephants, and other wildlife at risk of extinction. The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Conservation Letters, is one of the first to offer quantitative evidence linking the drive to reduce carbon emissions from forests with the push to preserve threatened mammal biodiversity. http://www.physorg.com/news163361427.html Space & Earth Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:11:11 EST news163361427 Some dinosaurs may have held their heads up, like a giraffe, rather than in a more horizontal position, University of Portsmouth scientists report today. http://www.physorg.com/news162653613.html Other Sciences Wed, 27 May 2009 14:34:15 EST news162653613 (PhysOrg.com) -- In the Japanese art of paper folding, a series of folds can make the same sheet of paper into a ballerina or baby elephant. But try unfolding the baby elephant and making it into a ballerina. It`s like trying to make a neuron from a kidney cell. Epigenetics, it turns out, isn`t much different from this old Japanese art: Each fold, or epigenetic crease, both limits and permits further potential folds in a way that mirrors how epigenetic changes seal a cell`s fate. http://www.physorg.com/news161533380.html Biology Thu, 14 May 2009 15:23:34 EST news161533380 (AP) -- Two rare Sumatran elephants believed to have been poisoned with cyanide-laced pineapples were found dead in the jungles of northwestern Indonesia with their tusks removed, a conservationist said. http://www.physorg.com/news160980901.html Biology Fri, 08 May 2009 05:55:53 EST news160980901 Two weeks after the rains begin, an elephant family named "the Royals" usually switches to a grass diet to bulk up for pregnancy and birth. But when they wandered off their African reserve one rainy season, cattle grazed the grass so short that elephants couldn't eat it, according to a University of Utah study. http://www.physorg.com/news158861986.html Biology Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:21:21 EST news158861986 (PhysOrg.com) -- Many a love-besotted soul has declared they would move the world for their true love, but how many actually accomplish that task in their quest to unite with a lover? http://www.physorg.com/news153758744.html Biology Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:46:22 EST news153758744 An African elephant never forgets - especially when it comes to the loss of its kin, according to researchers at the University of Washington. Their findings, published online in the journal, Molecular Ecology, reveal that the negative effects of poaching persist for decades after the killing has ended. http://www.physorg.com/news151672284.html Biology Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:12:14 EST news151672284 New data released today by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Malaysia's Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) reveals that a population of endangered Asian elephants living in a Malaysian park may be the largest in Southeast Asia. http://www.physorg.com/news151160631.html Biology Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:03:51 EST news151160631 In Chad, the ivory poachers have upgraded to automatic weapons. Having bolstered the population at this "last stand for elephants" in central Africa, the Wildlife Conservation Society estimated recently that the numbers had dropped again, from 3,500 to 1,000. http://www.physorg.com/news150295738.html Biology Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:48:58 EST news150295738 Elephants in Zakouma National Park, the last stronghold for the savanna elephants of Central Africa's Sahel region, now hover at about 1,000 animals, down from an estimated 3,000 in 2006. Ivory poachers using automatic weapons have decimated elephant populations - particularly when herds venture seasonally outside of the park. http://www.physorg.com/news148223845.html Biology Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:17:25 EST news148223845 Why did the elephant cross the road? It didn't according to a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and Save the Elephants that says endangered forest elephants are avoiding roadways at all costs. The authors of the study believe that these highly intelligent animals now associate roads with danger - in this case poaching, which is rampant in Central Africa's Congo Basin. http://www.physorg.com/news144408831.html Biology Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:33:51 EST news144408831 Throughout history, elephants have been thought of as 'different'. Shakespeare, and even Aristotle, described them as walking on inflexible column-like legs. And this myth persists even today. Which made John Hutchinson from The Royal Veterinary College, London, want to find out more about elephants and the way they move. Are they really that different from other, more fleet-footed species? Are their legs as rigid and 'columnar' as people had thought? Traveling to Thailand and several UK zoos, Hutchinson and his team investigated how Asian Elephants move their legs as they walk and run and publishes his results in The Journal of Experimental Biology. http://www.physorg.com/news138591764.html Biology Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:42:44 EST news138591764 African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989. But the public outcry that resulted in that ban is absent today, and a University of Washington conservation biologist contends it is because the public seems to be unaware of the giant mammals' plight. http://www.physorg.com/news136737757.html Biology Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:42:37 EST news136737757 Worries over the future of Thailand' s famous elephants have emerged following an investigation by a University of Manchester team. http://www.physorg.com/news136259169.html Biology Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:46:09 EST news136259169