Zoo nixes request to send aging elephants to sanctuary
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The American Zoo and Aquarium Association on Thursday denied Detroit Zoo director Ron Kagan&#39;s final appeal to send the two aging, arthritic elephants to one of two US sanctuaries where they could roam hundreds of acres.
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The National Zoo won't be hearing oohs and aahs over a new panda cub this year. Zoo officials said Friday that the giant panda Mei Xiang isn't pregnant after all.
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South Africa's Kruger National Park elephant population has nearly doubled in recent years, causing heavy habitat destruction and invasion of adjacent farms. Now conservation authorities are considering a plan to kill perhaps thousands elephants to bring the problem under control.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - A Taiwanese theme park has dropped a plan to use a cable made of 320,000 human hairs to lift an elephant, a report said Friday. The United Daily News said the theme park made the decision after critics said the act could scare the animal.
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Debate is raging over the plight of US zoo elephants, with activists charging confinement destroys their feet and even kills them, and the industry fiercely defending their top crowd pleaser.
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Animal handlers agonized over the issue for more than a year: the wisdom of moving Alaska's only elephant away from the only home she has ever known. Nine elephant experts were consulted from zoos and animal parks in the United States and Canada, and a decision was made: Maggie stays.
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FORT WORTH, Texas - The tsunami victims in Asia will be getting some help from an elephant who was born in Thailand but now resides at the Fort Worth Zoo.  An original work of art by Rasha, a 7,000-pound elephant, will be auctioned off on e-Bay beginning at noon Wednesday.
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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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The Kenya Wildlife Service has begun moving 150 elephants from a small reserve to its largest national park because of overcrowding with rhinos, a spokesman said Wednesday.
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By JOHN MILLER  BOISE, Idaho - Federal officials have rejected Idaho's plan to kill up to 43 wolves in north-central Idaho to boost elk numbers, saying scientific data gathered by the state do not justify the action.
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An African elephant, which collapsed and died at the Los Angeles Zoo this week, suffered a heart attack, officials said on Wednesday, and animal rights activists said the death underscored the risks of confining the large mammals in urban zoos.
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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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The city's oldest elephant is poised to live out her remaining days at an animal sanctuary in Central California after years of lobbying by animal activists for her retirement to a preserve.
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Elephants emerged safer and tigers won a vote of support, but sharks and corals failed to win protection at a two-week wildlife trade conference that ended Friday.
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California's workplace safety office rescinded a report issued earlier this week on a whale attack at SeaWorld Adventure Park, agreeing with SeaWorld officials' claims that the office was unsuited to recommend changes in how to deal with whales.
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Elephants in zoos are living as long as those in the wild, but their population in captivity is dwindling because it is so difficult to breed them, according to studies released Friday.
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Colorado's top wildlife officer would rather not see the burgeoning elk herd in Rocky Mountain National Park thinned by park employees hunting at night with rifles and silencers.