Drunken Indian elephants take on electricity pole
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Result? Fried pachyderm A herd of 40 Indian elephants which quaffed rice wine, "went berserk" as a result and rampaged round a village looking for food, suffered six fatalities after toppling an electricity pole, the West Australian reports.â¦
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Zoo elephants swaying back and forth,  polar bears swimming in endless circuits and manic monkeys  grooming themselves to baldness.
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Hunters in India's remote northeast are tracking a rogue elephant blamed for 14 deaths in the region and named after Osama bin Laden by fearful villagers.
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Santa shot at in Rio. Electric eels light up Japanese Christmas tree. Singapore elephants get festive gift of boots for jumbo pain.
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The African elephant got a new line of defense against poachers Monday after a global wildlife conference approved measures aimed at wiping out the continent's illegal ivory trade.
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(Correcting number in headline from 200 to 400. A corrected version of the item follows)  Text of report by Radio France Internationale on 6 June  [Chadian President] Idriss Deby Itno has deployed 400 regular army soldiers to defend the elephant population decimated by poachers.
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Fireworks that may not be entirely benign, engineering the quest for ethanol and the largest flying bird ever.
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BEIJING (Reuters Life!) - A Chinese "elephant man" with a crippling 15 kg (33 lb) tumor drooping from his head and face -- the biggest on record -- undergoes life-threatening surgery on Tuesday to have it removed.
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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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Lucy the elephant, believed to be the world's fourth-oldest African elephant in captivity, was euthanized Friday morning after staffers found her lying down in her stall, the Milwaukee County Zoo said.
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CALGARY, Alberta -- A baby elephant has been given a rare blood plasma transfusion after being shunned by her mother and is getting healthier by the day, Calgary Zoo officials say.
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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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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.
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KAMPALA, Uganda Feb. 28 -- South African wildlife officials on Wednesday proposed new elephant management rules that would allow burgeoning populations to be culled, a controversial practice banned since 1994 as unnecessarily cruel to the beloved but destructive animals.
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Despite a 1989 ban on the slaughter of elephants for their tusks, the illegal ivory trade is as brisk as ever. In an effort to step up efforts to protect elephants, researchers have been using genetic technology
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Animals at a Munich zoo will create their own power supply from Friday when their manure is recycled to generate heat and electricity.
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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.