Indians Hit the Road Amid Elephants
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As incomes rise and cheap cars proliferate, Indians are developing a new affection for the automobile.
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Ambika, one of the oldest Asian elephants in North America, has suffered from recent health problems but seems to be improving, the National Zoo said Thursday.
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NEW DELHI -- India and Pakistan hit a roadblock Wednesday in their monthslong effort to open a bus route that both governments agree would be an important step toward bringing peace to the divided territory of Kashmir.
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West Bengal state in India is to begin a birth control programme for elephants because it lacks funds for their upkeep.
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Agitated elephants felt the tsunami coming, and their sensitivity saved about a dozen foreign tourists from the fate of thousands killed by the giant waves.
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BHARATPUR, India  - For years, tourists have come to India's Keoladeo Ghana National Park to gaze at shimmering, bird-flocked wetlands stretching to the horizon.
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A protest march by thousands of landless Indian farmers and indigenous people is about to reach Delhi.
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KAZIRANGA, India  - Fifty elephants in colorful  velvet robes and tinkly anklets marched into a forest in  northeast India on Saturday to launch a week-long festival  aimed at ending conflict between the animals and locals.
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SURIN, Thailand  - Sucking up sugarcane with their trunks and circling busy traffic roundabouts, the elephants that roam Thai towns at festival time seem as much at home in the city as in the forest.
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Elephants use their feet to &quot;hear&quot; calls from other herds but react most if the calls come from elephants they know, New Scientist reports.
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Elephants on parade, bulls on the beach, bears on the bench. It&#39;s going to be quite a week on Wall Street. Although how many Wall Streeters will be around is up in the air.
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Wild monkeys and Buddhist shrines outnumber any signs of industry, and rampaging elephants are not uncommon. The closest port lies seven hours away, down a rutted road.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A train plowed into a herd of wild elephants in central Sri Lanka on Thursday, killing three of the animals, a railroad official said.
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Attacks by elephants on villages, people and other animals are on the rise. Some researchers are pointing to a species-wide trauma and the fraying of the fabric of pachyderm society.
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The senior elephant keeper at Whipsnade Zoo describes the arrival of the latest addition to their herd of rare Asian elephants
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SHEIKHPUR, India  - A dozen men shovel soil into baskets, carry them a few yards and dump the earth at the head of a new dirt road snaking through a remote Indian village.
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A lonely wild male elephant raided a female elephant stable at a circus in eastern India and wooed one of its residents to elope with him, a newspaper report said on Thursday.