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Several animal rights groups have recently managed to obtain their first victory, since Santa Ana Zoo has decided to comply with their requests and put an end to dangerous, barbaric elephant rides. The Animal Protection and Rescue League, Animal Defenders International (ADI), PETA and a few eco-conscious celebrities ... |
19 December 2011
05:32 GMT |
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For only $668 (€513) you could spend an incredible night in one of the jaw-dropping suites from the Makanyane Safari Lodge, located in South Africa's Madikwe Game Reserve. Apart from the delicious breakfast, lunch and dinner, all included in this price, the hotel owners have thought about another feature ai... |
19 December 2011
03:39 GMT |
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Sustainable fashion that gives back to the environment is a great concept that needs to be embraced on a larger scale.
Suno company designing casual footwear for women may not be as popular or profitable as major brands, but it is definitely much more generous.
An amount of its profit goes to support the David Sh... |
15 December 2011
10:32 GMT |
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Elephants will no longer represent a major threat to local farmers, due to an ingenious invention showcased by a well-known biologist. Dr Lucy King is the lucky winner of an award offered by the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals during a United Nations ceremony that took place in Ber... |
26 November 2011
03:32 GMT |
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Scientists figured out a new way of quantifying wildlife populations in Indonesia, thanks to strategically placed motion-triggered camera traps.Tim O'Brien of the Wildlife Conservation Society and his team, used the Wildlife Picture Index, or WPI, to follow changes within the diversity of the wildlife in Bukit B... |
9 September 2010
08:39 GMT |
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Developed by the company with the same name, Evernote lets you capture stuff like webpages, whiteboards, scribbles, to-dos, photos and even music files, and keep them in a safe place for easy access, across all your devices. Using the service, available in both free and paid form, you can tag your new additions, or ... |
17 July 2009
06:03 GMT |
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Mike Holding, a wildlife cameraman filming a documentary for the BBC in northern Botswana, came across one of the rarest sights in the animal world – a pink elephant. The cub, which was hiding under its mother for protection, was only sighted for a few moments, but the journalist managed to get a few snapshots ... |
20 March 2009
11:51 GMT |
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A recent scientific study has shown that adult female elephants living in captivity die at a much younger age than their “peers” living in the wild, in natural reservations or on their own. The find was announced by a team of international scientists, who studied well over half of the world's captive... |
12 December 2008
02:22 GMT |
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Natural reservations were created in national parks across Africa with the express purpose of caring for the wildlife, as well as for endangered species, such as several types of elephants. This usually implies the area is protected and that human activities are reduced to a minimum. This is not the case with the Cho... |
6 November 2008
02:17 GMT |
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Japanese cloning experts announced on Tuesday that they were successful in cloning a mouse that has been dead for 15 years, and that the new animal turned out fine. It was even able to reproduce with another female rat, which gave researchers a field day, seeing how this step in science could bring forth a cloning "r... |
4 November 2008
09:00 GMT |
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A recent study added another member to the list of the creatures that prove self-awareness capabilities besides humans, dolphins, apes and magpies. It's the elephant, which has been proven to be able to recognize its own face in the mirror.Only seven years ago, everybody was absolutely convinced that the self-aw... |
30 September 2008
05:24 GMT |
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Here is a dwarf amongst living elephants: the pygmy elephant of Borneo is one meter (3 feet) shorter than its mainland Asian elephant counterparts and remarkably tame and passive. They also look different from other Asian elephants, being rounder and with longer tails, straighter tusks, a shorter trunk and bigger ear... |
29 April 2008
03:31 GMT |
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Today we associate elephants with forests and savannas. But a new research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that an elephant ancestor called Moeritherium made its home in rivers and swamps. In fact, the closest relatives of the elephants are the sea cows (manatees and dug... |
15 April 2008
03:47 GMT |
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In a top of intelligence, humans are followed by apes, elephants and dolphins. The elephant brain is denser than the human's, and the temporal lobes, associated to memory, are more developed than in humans. Elephant's lobes also have more foldings, so that they can store more information. That's why el... |
30 January 2008
10:47 GMT |
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1.European sailors navigating, a few centuries ago, in tropical waters could not believe their eyes: they were seeing mermaids, common in the sea folklore. The creature were fish-like from the waist beyond, had a pair of breasts in the chest area, and their flippers and heads vaguely resembled human head and arms fro... |
9 January 2008
15:32 GMT |
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1.There are 170 known fossil elephant species that inhabited the whole Earth, except for Australia and Antarctica. The elephants' ancestors appeared 50 million years ago in North Africa, were pig sized and resembled a tapir. Elephants' living closest relatives are sea cows, like manatees, dugongs and hyraxe... |
21 November 2007
16:48 GMT |
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First in Africa, now in India. Wildlife experts in northeastern India are using a new non-lethal weapon against crop raiding and home destroying elephants: superhot chili. Conservationists in Assam state tested against elephants jute fences ointed with automobile grease and bhut jolokia chilies (ghost chilies), the w... |
21 November 2007
04:07 GMT |
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Mammoths are fossil elephants, closely related to the Asian elephants, from whose branch they split off 5.8 to 7.7 million years ago. They appeared in Africa where two species of mammoth lived 4.8 MA ago. A huge mammoth species, the steppe mammoth (Mammuthus trogontherii) roamed the plains of northern Eurasia during ... |
26 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Not all the people are perceived in the same manner by elephants. A Maasai warrior clothing can induce dread in African elephants, driving them to the safety of tall grasses. These war shepherds occasionally spear elephants as a sign of virility (in fact, a Maasai is not considered a man till he has not killed a lion... |
22 October 2007
07:22 GMT |
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This is not a cartoon joke: the Goliath of our days can be chased away by the same insects: bees. The giant mammals evacuate the place as soon as they hear the buzz of a bee swarm. In the end, this could be their salvation. Strategically placed beehives could prevent elephants from raiding crops, decreasing man-beast... |
9 October 2007
02:52 GMT |
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The elephants' fate is in our hands, because we're the ones who influence two main factors menacing their populations: habitat loss and the illegal ivory trade. At the beginning of the 20th century, there were 3-5 million elephants in Africa. Then, the hunt was practiced mainly by the Arab ivory smugglers a... |
5 October 2007
02:51 GMT |
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The elephant was called "hatti", the bear "balu", the deer "sambar" and the tiger "bagh". Even if in his political and social writings Richard Kipling proved pejorative and even racist towards the Indians, he had as a source of inspiration the Hindu names of the beasts to create a universe that turned on the imaginat... |
3 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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You can say that a four-limbed animal is running when at a given moment all its four limbs are in the air or its gravity center moves up and down in a pogo stick-like motion.It is said that the elephant does not run because they simply cannot do it. But when an elephant speeds up, can that be called just fast walking... |
11 September 2007
16:06 GMT |
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This is a dwarf among elephants: the pygmy elephant of Borneo is one meter (3 feet) shorter than its mainland Asian elephant counterparts and remarkably tame and passive. Now, these gentle creatures are menaced by the shrinking and fragmentation of their habitat, the forests.A new research made by the World Wide Fund... |
13 August 2007
03:06 GMT |
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In modern day elephants, tusks rarely exceed 3.5 m (12 ft) in length in African male champions. In mammoths, this was the norm. But recently, in northern Greece, 250 mi (400 km) north of Athens, researchers have discovered two massive tusks of a prehistoric mastodon that roamed Europe over 2 million years ago and whi... |
27 July 2007
03:01 GMT |
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Humans and elephants evolved in the same African dry savanna. That's why elephant fossils offer a clue on the type of environment in which our ancestors lived. An analysis of DNA painstakingly retrieved from an ancient mastodon tooth has further pushed back the time when mammoths split off from elephants. It app... |
24 July 2007
04:55 GMT |
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Elephants amaze us with their abilities, from their infrasound communication to the perception of seismic waves. Now they appear to have a mysterious ability of detecting land mines. This was observed in elephants moving to war-ravaged southern Angola from neighboring countries, especially Botswana. "The elephants ar... |
17 July 2007
03:27 GMT |
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During the Ice Age, huge beasts forming the megafauna, like mammoths, saber-toothed cats and woolly rhinos roamed the continents of our planet. But the Ice Age ended some 10,000 years ago and most of the megafauna disappeared, a fact which is connected to the spread of modern humans. This fauna loss left the Holocene... |
1 June 2007
10:06 GMT |
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Elephants are not only the largest land mammals, but also the possessors of some amazing abilities, like that of infrasound communication over large areas. We cannot hear them, but elephants located tens of kilometers away can. In 2004, the behavioral ecologist Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell of Stanford University in... |
1 June 2007
06:12 GMT |
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What brings sexual success to an elephant also means its death by human hand, ever since antiquity: their ivory. Now conservationists blame Asian mafias operating in Africa for the recent massive slaughter of elephants (particularly of Central African ones) for their ivory.A recent research made by TRAFFIC, a wildlif... |
14 May 2007
03:42 GMT |
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