An Elephant Crackup?
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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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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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San Francisco officials pondered  on Thursday whether to implement an unprecedented ban of  elephants from its zoo because of concerns about their  conditions in captivity.
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PILANESBERG NATIONAL PARK, South Africa -- Ecologist Rudi van Aarde leaned back on a veranda that overlooked dry grasslands and a group of bull elephants, his shoes still dusty from an 8,000-mile tour of game reserves in southern Africa. Van Aarde was on a mission: saving elephants from sanctioned killings.
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In delivering its message this week, the GOP elephant so far has been something of a one-trick pony. On Monday, the prime-time speakers at the Republican National Convention spoke about terrorism.
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By Edited by Katie Stirling  THANKS to Claire Collins, of Ayr, who wins my weekly tenner with this daft picture.  If you have a funny internet image, why not share it with us? Please include your full postal address.  (c) 2006 Sunday Mail; Glasgow (UK).
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Make the moo jokes, make the methane jokes, make any joke you like -- but the One Laptop Per Child project is pondering the prospect of using cattle to generate electrical power for their low-cost computers. Has Bossy got what it takes to roam the information superhighway?
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It seems even a crusty old newshound like me can get burned. My item last week about a couple naming their baby âYahooâ turns out to be a hoax cooked up by a (now-unemployed) Romanian tabloid reporter. Reporters making things up just for a laugh? I am shocked, simply shocked.Â
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Herds growing: South African farmers say they are destructive and dangerous. In the West, they are perhaps the most beloved of the big game species. So a proposal to cull the expanding elephant population is controversial. A12  U.S. attorneys: One of eight U.S.
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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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Please quote me on this Stob There's another of those lists of supposedly amusing/sage/cute adagesÂ going around, bouncing from blog to email, accumulating fresh contributions and occasional edits and doing all the meme-ish things that memes do. This one differs from all the others that you have deleted irritably from your email inbox in that it includes a contribution taken from this very column.â¦
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The substitution of mammoth ivory for elephant ivory presents an unusual example of how conservation of one limited resource could  lead to the uncontrolled, and perhaps catastrophic, exploitation of another.
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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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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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Researchers say elephants can tell whether a human is a friend or foe by their scent and colour of clothing.
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GABORONE, Botswana  - When Uttum Corea arrived in  Africa from Sri Lanka he was puzzled by the widely held notion  that African elephants could not be tamed.
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BANGKOK, Thailand - If a toothache is bad, just imagine what a tusk ache must feel like.    So pity the poor three-ton bull elephant Kamsaen, whose four months of agony finally came to an end when veterinarians extracted a partially cut tusk which had become infected...