Search Results for 'Elephants'

For second year, group says Safari isn't good to elephants

For the second year in a row, the Wildlife Safari has made an animal protection organization's list of the top ten worst zoos for elephants, but officials at the park say the group is just looking for attention. Last year, the grou [...]

Posted On : Jan, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

The Elephant in the Room: How Contraception Could Save Futur...

In South Africa they have a problem, a big one: too many elephants. For most of the 1900s extensive poaching threatened to wipe out the country’s elephants. In response, conservationists established reserves throughout the region an [...]

Posted On : Dec, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

Denver Zoo elephants make high-flying move into new habitat

A Mile High version of Dumbo, the flying pachyderm, took flight today when Mimi and Dolly went airborne — in a crate lifted by a crane — into their new home at the Denver Zoo. The city's resident elephants moved to the new [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Zoo loses face, along with its elephants

Let’s hope the road ahead for Toka, Thika and Iringa won’t be as bumpy as the one their masters at the Toronto Zoo now face. Not only must zoo officials try to figure out the logistics for getting the three aging female e [...]

Posted On : Nov, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Losing elephants could cost zoo its accreditation

By getting rid of its endangered elephants, the Toronto Zoo could be endangering itself. North America’s two zoo accreditation bodies have issued stern letters to the Toronto Zoo, warning staff and board members that shipping three [...]

Posted On : Nov, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Zoo keepers fuming over vote sending elephants to sanctuary

The Toronto Zoo’s elephant keepers are up in arms over a late-night city council vote to send the animals to a sanctuary rather than an accredited facility. “No offence to any city (councillors) that made the decision, but [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Zoo’s elephants will be sent to sanctuary

The Toronto Zoo’s three aging elephants should be moved to a California sanctuary, city council decided late Tuesday. The elephants would be able to live out their days there, said Councillor Michelle Berardinetti, whose motion [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

Elephants show smarts at National Zoo

The Post's Brian Vastag reports on how the National Zoo's youngest elephant is showing researchers just how thoughtful the animals can be.

Posted On : Aug, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Zoo to set up sperm bank for elephants

The Pittsburgh Zoo says it is waiting for genetic material from the South African government to start North America's first sperm bank for African elephants. Zoo officials said they have been waiting almost two years for the material, [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Elephants - The Largest Land Mammal

Elephants are the largest animals on land. There are two types of elephants, African elephants and Asian elephants. Both the species of elephants used to subsist in great numbers all over Africa and parts of Asia. At present, bot [...]

Posted On : Jul, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Elephants to retire south, zoo board decides

Moments after gazing at the Toronto Zoo’s three old elephants, five-year-old Hayden Masters learned that the people in charge of the zoo had decided to ship the animals somewhere else. What will he miss? “They walk around a [...]

Posted On : May, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Zoo life is killing elephants, study finds

Zoo life can be deadly for elephants, researchers concluded in a study that found wild elephants live longer than their captive sisters. The average African female elephant lived to be just under 17 in a zoo but female elephants living natu [...]

Posted On : Dec, 16 2008 | Comments : 0

Eco-damage threatens elephants and ants

Now a study has shown that if elephants, giraffes and other picture-postcard animals disappear from the eastern African savanna, the ecological damage may extend, ironically, to the acacia trees they eat and cascade all the way to d [...]

Posted On : Jan, 11 2008 | Comments : 0

Four elephants electrocuted in India

SHILONG, November 22 (RIA Novosti) - Four wild Asiatic elephants, three females and a calf, have been electrocuted in India's northeast Meghalaya state, local media said on Thursday. The four elephants died after becoming entangled in high- [...]