Ringling Bros. faces allegations of elephant abuse

Tom Rider, who used to be a "barn man" for Ringling Bros., said that when he worked there in the late 1990s, he regularly saw handlers of the circus' endangered Asian elephants abusing the giant creatures. He said they used long, sharp-hooked poles, "hitting them...

Orphaned Elephants Forced To Forge New Bonds Decades After Ivory Ban

An African elephant never forgets – especially when it comes to the loss of its kin, according to researchers at the University of Washington. Their findings, published online in the journal, Molecular Ecology, reveal that the negative effects of poaching persist...

Elephant sanctuary sees unlikely friends: a dog and an elephant

I hope this heartwarming story and accompanying video give you warm fuzzies that last all weekend: When elephants retire, many head for the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn. They arrive one by one, but they tend to live out their lives two-by-two. "Every elephant...

How To Lose A Ton Of Weight? Try The Elephant Diet

Elephants at the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park are slimming down. The seven elephants have collectively lost more than five tons of fat since 2000. Never has the big boned excuse been more accurate, but the elephants at the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park...

Elephant study puts Kansas City Zoo animals in the spotlight

A new international study could raise a question about the Kansas City Zoo’s elephants: If they were in the wild would they live longer? The study says elephants — at least in Europe — die younger in captivity than in their native environments. It stirs the...

Britney Spears’ ‘Circus’ Video Taken To Task By PETA, But Trainers Insist Animals Were Treated Well

On Monday, People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals issued a press release condemning Britney Spears for featuring "cruelly trained lions and elephants" in her just-released "Circus" video and demanded that the pop star "stop using exotic animals in her videos...

Fearful Elephants Would Sooner Starve Than Cross Roads

New research by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Save the Elephants has found that African Elephants are quickly becoming trapped by new road construction cutting through their forest habitats. The study, which appeared in today’s issue of Public Library...

Heroin elephant can never be freed

Four-year-old Xiguang and three other elephants who the smugglers also captured were taken to an animal protection centre on China's tropical island of Hainan to recover from their ordeals and overcome their heroin addictions. While they are all fit...

Elephants ‘Phone’ Friends With Rumbles

Human friends and relatives keep tabs on their loved ones by phone when they're apart, and now new research shows elephants do nearly the same thing with rumble vocalizations that can transmit over one and a half miles. The finding helps to explain how elephants...

Bus Hits Runaway Circus Elephant In Mexico

The 5½-ton animal crashed through a gate and stumbled onto a major road near Mexico City at about midnight. Police at the scene said the bus driver stood no chance of missing the elephant. The elephant and bus driver both died and several of the passengers on the...

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