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Jumbo-sized discovery made in Malaysia
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Jan 14, 2009 |
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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 ...
S.Leone elephants 'wiped out' by poachers: official
Nov 26, 2009 |
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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.
Baby elephant euthanized at animal park
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Feb 07, 2008 |
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A baby elephant with a drug-resistant staph infection was euthanized Monday at the Wild Animal Park near Escondido, Calif.
Missing: 2,000 elephants
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Dec 11, 2008 |
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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 ...
Seattle zoo slammed for elephant breeding
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Dec 06, 2007 |
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The Woodland Park Zoo has become the target of strong criticism aimed at stopping the elephant breeding program at the Seattle facility.
Australia welcomes its first new-born elephant
Jul 04, 2009 |
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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.
Elephants' fear of angry bees could help to protect them
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Oct 08, 2007 |
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At a time when encroaching human development in former wildlife areas has compressed African elephants into ever smaller home ranges and increased levels of human-elephant conflict, a study in the October 9th issue of Current Bi ...
Scientists find elephant memories may hold key to survival
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Aug 11, 2008 |
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A recent study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) suggests that old female elephants—and perhaps their memories of distant, life-sustaining sources of food and ...
Male elephants get 'photo IDs' from scientists
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Aug 15, 2007 |
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Asian elephants don’t carry photo identification, so scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and India’s Nature Conservation Foundation are providing the service free of charge by creating a photographic archive ...
Study: Elephants thought extinct may have survived
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Apr 17, 2008 |
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The Borneo pygmy elephant may not be native to the island of Borneo after all. Instead, the population could be the last survivors of the Javan elephant race – accidentally saved from extinction by the Sultan ...
Elephant highways of death
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Apr 03, 2007 |
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A new study coordinated by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society and other groups found that Central Africa’s increasing network of roads – which are penetrating deeper and deeper into the wildest areas of the ...
Uncertain future for elephants of Thailand
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Jul 26, 2008 |
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Worries over the future of Thailand' s famous elephants have emerged following an investigation by a University of Manchester team.
Penguins and sea lions help produce new atlas
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Recording hundreds of thousands of individual uplinks from satellite transmitters fitted on penguins, albatrosses, sea lions, and other marine animals, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and BirdLife ...
Discovery of the oldest known elephant relative
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Jul 08, 2009 |
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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.
Vietnam War Technology Could Aid Elephant Conservation
Jun 20, 2005 |
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Seismic sensors developed to track enemy troop movements during the Vietnam war could help ecologists monitor and conserve elephant populations, according to new research published in the British Ecological Society's Journal ...
