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After a gap of five years, an elephant census will be conducted in Jharkhand and three other states from June 1 in a three-day long exercise. "As per the Central government guidelines, the census will be taken up between June 1 and 3 in ...
May 27, 2012 at 06:57 | Source: Asian Age
And judging by this hilarious video, it seems a two-year-old elephant called Donna has many of the ball skills that England coach Roy Hodgson is looking for. The playful Asian elephant, one of the star attractions at Whipsnade Zoo, entertained crowds of ...
May 28, 2012 at 22:12 | Source: Daily Mail
When Oregon Zoo elephant curator Bob Lee heard of the Department of Transportation's plan to rev up the project in June, he raised a caution flag on Rose-Tu's behalf. Rose-Tu, an Asian elephant at the Oregon Zoo, is pregnant and due to give ...
May 21, 2012 at 23:54 | Source: Oregonian
Hunted for their tusks and stripped of their natural habitat to make way for crops, roads and new settlements the Asian elephant is listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List. MEME will produce ...
May 23, 2012 at 13:00 | Source: phys.org
Elephants are notorious for their long memories, but now they will be renowned for their lengthy pregnancies. Long-suffering Asian elephant Azizah was carrying her baby for 700 days - 84 longer than the average - and finally gave birth at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo ...
May 14, 2012 at 16:45 | Source: Daily Mail
The singer-songwriter Morrissey has called for a sick elephant to be relocated from a zoo in Manila to an animal sanctuary. He made the request ahead of playing a concert in the Philippines. The Pinoy notes that the letter was in relation to an Asian ...
May 23, 2012 at 01:47 | Source: Digital Journal
Groucho, a 41-year-old Asian elephant, hardly seemed to mind as a crowd squealed with excitement as he ate his breakfast. Several hundred people were lined up for a sneak preview of the Denver Zoo's new 10-acre Toyota Elephant Passage exhibit ...
May 13, 2012 at 06:52 | Source: Denver Post
The event was part of a year of fund-raising by June to raise money for Cancer Research, Golden Triangle Asian Elephant Foundation and Boon Lotts Elephant Sanctuary – so far she has raised £2,250..
May 28, 2012 at 09:26 | Source: Bury Free Press
Reliance Infrastructure owns a 51 per cent share of the four power distribution companies in Orissa and 79 of the 99 elephant deaths occurred in elephant habitats within the distribution areas of the WESCO, NESCO and SOUTHCO companies.
May 21, 2012 at 04:12 | Source: Asian Age
with sort of thicker limbs, stockier, and as an adult it would have had curly tusks. "The nearest image you're going to get is a baby Asian elephant, but with tusks." Compared with its extinct cousins, whose shoulder height could exceed four ...
May 25, 2012 at 23:56 | Source: YAHOO!