Posts Tagged ‘elephants’
Elephants usually eat bananas whole but that's far too gauche for Pang Pha, an Asian elephant at the Berlin Zoo. She taught herself to peel bananas before eating them, most likely by watching her caretakers do the same. Pang Pha reserves th... ...
If you're not already familiar with what it takes to gather ***** from an elephant, this video of the process will serve as the ultimate "I'm not sure what I expected" experience. The scene is from the Extinctions documentary released in 2011.
Artificial stimulation of the animal does not produce large quantities of *****. Each drop ...
Paul Barton (previously at Boing Boing) plays the piano for elephants and has been at it for many years. Here he is performing Beethoven's Quasi una fantasia, the Moonlight Sonata, for an old one who's led a rough life.
Mongkol is a 61-year-old former logging elephant. His captive-held life was spent hauling trees in ...
PHOTO provided by Anna Dubrovskaya, in Yekaterinburg, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020. When a circus troupe tried to load the animals into a truck to head to the next destination, they resisted, and walked away.
In Russia's third-largest city, Yekaterinburg, some residents recently witnessed two elephants wandering snowy streets, after escaping from an Italian circus ...
Bull in a China shop? How about an elephant in a South Asian hotel?
woke up to a text from my mom about how a wild elephant went into a Sri Lankan hotel and gently wandered around while poking stuff with his trunk pic.twitter.com/C2biQT8C30
— Upuli 🇱🇰 (@upidaisy) January 19, 2020
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Four years ago, there were 15 known black rhinos left in Tanzania -- "ground zero of the poaching crisis" -- and today there 167 of them; elephant populations (which dropped 60% between 2009-2014) are rebounding too, up to over 60,000 from a low of 43,330.
The recovery is attributed to the administration of resident John Magufuli, ...
A suspected rhino poacher in South Africa's Kruger National Park was killed by an elephant and then eaten by lions.
After the elephant attack, police said, "his accomplices claimed to have carried his body to the road so that passersby could find it in the morning. They then vanished from the Park."
"Indications found at the ...
Peng Shepherd's The Book of M delivers the confusion and frustration of massive world change by playing on the strings of your heart.
Magical realism certainly collides with prepper fantasy novel in The Book of M. People are losing their shadows and with them, their memories. As the world falls apart, folks with their shadows ...
This is One Good Thing, a weekly column where we tell you about one of the few nice things that happened this week.
The first hospital for elephants opened in the holy Hindu town of Mathura in India last week— and it's kind of a big deal.
Desi... ...
About 90% of elephants living in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park were slaughtered for their tusks by poachers during Mozambique's 15-year civil war that ended in 1992. The poachers then profited by selling the tusks to finance weapons. As a result, we're now seeing a growing population of elephants in the country born without tusks. Tuskless ...