Fun is serious for Asian elephants' struggle to survive
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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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Pachyderm underage rumpy-pumpy outrage Animals rights groups are none too pleased that Sydney's Taronga zoo has allowed a nine-year-old Asian elephant to get up the duff a full two years before what they consider is the captive pachyderm age of consent.â¦
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BANG NIENG, Thailand -- A year ago, they were filming battle scenes for the movie &quot;Alexander.&quot; Now six elephants are pitching in to help with the massive cleanup from the tsunami that devastated many of Thailand's prime tourist destinations.
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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...
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Wanda and Winky, the two Asian elephants that officials at the Detroit Zoo want to send from the northern cold to a southern sanctuary, must go to the Columbus Zoo instead, the accrediting association for the nation&#39;s zoos has decided.
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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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Anthropologists are not often giddy with excitement, but the unearthing of the skeleton of a meter-tall female who hunted pygmy elephants and giant rats 18,000 years ago has them whooping with delight the finding of another piece of the puzzle of the
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A live Asian elephant, painted in pink and gold, stands in a makeshift living room.
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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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Wild elephants electrocuted as they go berserk after drinking rice beer in India's remote north-east.
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The world&#39;s &#39;flagship species&#39; on land and sea, whales and elephants, won a reprieve on Tuesday from commercial exploitation at a major conservation conference in Thailand&#39;s capital.
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Travel: Gwladys Fouche joins a mahout training course at an elephant camp in the heart of Laos. But it soon becomes apparent that two days won't be enough.
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The struggle over the fate of two aging elephants at the Detroit Zoo might move to a new battleground, the zoo director said Friday.
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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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Bamboo, a 38-year-old elephant with no close friends at Woodland Park Zoo and a limited tolerance for the high jinks of baby Hansa, is packing her trunk and heading for the zoo in Tacoma, which welcomes prickly pachyderms.
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Scientists say they have worked out the date the African and Asian elephants diverged, putting it at 7.6 million years ago.
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Tusker, a towering 50-year-old bull elephant who had become a favorite for safari camp visitors, was shot dead after New Year's party-goers provoked the animal into trampling several cars, conservationists said Monday.