News tagged with elephants

2 rare elephants found dead in Indonesian jungle

May 08, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 1

(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.

Diet secrets of 'the Royals' -- Elephant tail hair isotopes show cattle out-munch pachyderms

Biology / Plants & Animals

Apr 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

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, ...

When it comes to elephant love calls, the answer lies in a bone-shaking triangle

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Feb 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

(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?

Orphaned elephants forced to forge new bonds decades after ivory ban

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Jan 20, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

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 ...

Jumbo-sized discovery made in Malaysia

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Jan 14, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

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 ...

Elephant populations decline in the wild, but zoos may not be the answer

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Jan 04, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 1

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 ...

Missing: 2,000 elephants

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Dec 11, 2008 | 4.5 / 5 (2) | 0

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 ...

Roads bring death and fear to forest elephants

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Oct 28, 2008 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

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 ...

Elephant legs are much bendier than Shakespeare thought

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Aug 22, 2008 | 5 / 5 (3) | 1

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 ...

Ivory poaching at critical levels: Elephants on path to extinction by 2020?

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Jul 31, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

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, ...